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HHS Uncertain Whether Staff Will Face Furloughs Due To Sequestration

By The Huffington Post News Editors

WASHINGTON — As workers across the federal government begin to receive furlough notices due to the deep budget cuts known as sequestration, the Department of Health and Human Services is one of the agencies that is still figuring out if it can absorb the reductions without making staff take unpaid leave.

HHS is working to implement the sequester reductions in a way that tries to minimize the negative impacts on HHS‘s mission,” agency spokesman Bill Hall told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. “We do not have final plans or estimates of the impacts on HHS employees at this time, but we continue to evaluate the situation and have made no determinations at this point as to whether we will need to implement any furloughs.”

He added, however, that “it’s fair to say that our efforts to protect the health and enhance the well-being of all Americans will be significantly impacted by the sequester.”

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