SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) - Many federal employees across the country have now been furloughed or working without pay for 23 days. And a local bank in South Dakota wants to help those workers get through this period of uncertainty.

"To no problem of their own, people have been put in a tough spot. The government shutdown but their bills didn't shutdown," Dave Kroll, Chief Lending Officer for First Dakota, said.

That's why First Dakota National Bank has a Federal Employee Shutdown Relief Program.

"This is a program that First Dakota actually did back in 2019 when we had another extended federal shutdown and it was received really well," Kroll said. "The program is meant to help those that have been affected by not receiving a paycheck and being laid off with the federal shutdowns. So, Fir

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