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[quote=Anonymous]I'm still trying to wrap my head around the real amount of lost income. My cousin was talking about how he's getting a 20% pay cut. But he's only losing 11 days of paid work (DoD civilian). Yes, 20% for those 11 weeks, but over a year, it's only a 4.2% cut if I'm doing my math right (11 days out of 260 worked a year). I'm in the private sector making less than a fed doing what I do and had two years of no raises, one pay cut of 2% and then 2% raise a year for several years. Not as bad, but it's just something I've sucked up by only shopping sales, using coupons whenever I can, cutting the home phone, never eating lunch out, etc. One way I've saved money is taking some of the credit card offers (2 free flights on Southwest, enough bonus points on a Citi Thank You card to get $400 in gift cards for places like CVS and Amazon). I've canceled the cards before the annual fee kicks in and it doesn't seem to have hurt my credit score.[/quote]
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