(NaturalNews) Most Americans work in the private sector, and many find the pay and benefits lavished upon federal government employees as unfair and inappropriate, especially since they know that government pay and benefits are supplied, by and large, by taxpayers.

So it's not likely they will be happy with a decision to pay some federal employees in Oregon who were furloughed double.

As reported by Fox News:

Some federal workers who were furloughed in Oregon could be getting paid twice, with a state official confirming ... that those workers who received state unemployment benefits during the partial government shutdown will not have to re-pay the money.

Unemployment benefits, too, are paid by taxpayers.

Millions spent in double-dipping: Thank you, taxpayers

A spokesman for WorkSource Oregon Employment Department, the state's unemployment benefits division, told Fox News the workers in question received, "at most," only a week's worth of unemployment benefits. The spokesman went onto say he did not how many federal workers received the benefits. And he said the furloughed federal workers who double-dipped, compliments of the taxpayer, won't have to re-pay the state unemployment benefits.

More from Fox News:

The employees will receive double pay because the budget bill approved by Congress provides that all furloughed government workers will receive back pay for the days they did not work under the partial government shutdown.

According to Richard Hobble, of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, if federal employees get paid double, then states should force them to repay those unemployment benefits once they get their back pay.

"The states will be expected to collect back from the claimants who received those benefits when in fact they were compensated for those weeks," he told Fox News Oct. 11.

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