Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. A federal employee trying to buy a house just hit a major roadblock: a furlough. With the federal government shut down, one person took to Reddit to ask for advice while caught between a mortgage deadline and a paycheck freeze. Furlough Threatens Mortgage Approval “We’re in the underwriting process, and the mortgage contingency deadline is coming up in a few days,” the poster explained. “Closing date is i ...