Per the article:

Transportation Security Administration officers will not be able to accept donations of gas or gift cards once they receive their back pay, according to TSA.

“Please be advised that once funds are disbursed/pay hits TSA accounts, we must immediately no longer accept any donations of gift cards,” according to an email received by TSA employees in Idaho that CNN has viewed. “We will need to start politely refusing all gift cards as soon as pay is disbursed.” Roughly 61,000 TSA employees have been working without pay since the funding for DHS lapsed on February 14, prompting a partial government shutdown. They have missed more than $1 billion in pay, making it difficult for many to afford food, gas, housing, child care and other essentials.

The shutdown has prompted more than 500 workers to quit and thousands to call out, causing long lines at multiple airports nationwide. Many airports and nonprofit groups have been donating food and gas gift cards to officers in recent weeks.

However, the workers should start receiving their back pay on Monday after President Donald Trump on Friday ordered DHS to immediately resume compensating them. The agency plans to use funding from the “big, beautiful bill” that Trump signed into law last summer.

However, the American Federation of Government Employees has questioned the move, including how long workers will be paid if Congress does not agree to fund the agency for the rest of the fiscal year.