TSA officers received some of their back pay last week. Many say it’s not enough to cover the bills piling up | CNN

Struggling with insomnia and stress since the partial government shutdown began in mid-February, one Transportation Security Administration supervisor was awake at 3 a.m. on March 30 when she received the alert on her phone she’d been desperately waiting to get for weeks. A paycheck was deposited into her bank account, the first one in weeks. But as soon as she saw the amount, she thought, “Where’s the rest?” It was short at least $1,000 of back pay, dampening her relief. The few thousand dollars she did receive only covered close to half of her overdue expenses, she estimated. “The money was gone in a matter of days – just to cover the bills that I was able to cover,” the supervisor at Tampa International Airport, who has been with the agency for a decade, said. “I still have to call all my creditors and work with different people to say, ‘Hey, just give me some time.’ It’s ridiculous.” The supervisor, who requested anonymity discussing her job, is one of tens of thousands of TSA employees who received at least some of the back pay they were owed after President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA workers. The move came after