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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ali Swenson

Some furloughed workers will return to manage health insurance open enrollment as shutdown drags on

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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment, according to an agency spokesperson.

The recall to duty amid the more than three-week-long government shutdown is what's needed to “best serve the American people amid the Medicare and Marketplace open enrollment seasons,” the spokesperson said Thursday.

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