The current funding for the government expires at midnight on Sept. 30, with Oct. 1 being the potential start of a partial government shutdown.
Social Security and Medicare benefits will continue during a shutdown.
You will still get mail during a government shutdown.
The government could partially shutdown on Oct. 1 as Republicans and Democrats in Congress have yet to come to an agreement on funding.
Democrats have been refusing to support a funding bill unless the legislation undoes recent Republican cuts to healthcare programs .
Both sides have been blaming each other for the impending shutdown.
"Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. They’d rather shut down the government than help 22 million Americans afford their health insurance," Rep. Gabe Amo, D-R.I.,