These are uncertain times for Tiffany Gilliam, a 45-year-old mother of three adult children, a grandmother of a toddler, with a fiance who all live in her three-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Riverhead.

Thanks to a federal Section 8 housing assistance voucher, two-thirds of the rent is covered for Gilliam, who said she earns $20.35 an hour working full time at a nursing home. Yet, she worries about the future.

So far, the federal government shutdown hasn't affected the payments to landlords of renters who receive Section 8 housing vouchers, according to one local housing official.

"Payments are still going out," Gwen O'Shea, president and CEO of Community Development Long Island, a nonprofit and small public housing authority that administers Section 8 vouchers in Nassau and Suffolk cou

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