The Labor Department will release its CPI inflation report, while other data will be delayed due to the shutdown

the Work section Staff will return to work on the headline consumer inflation report although it continues Federal government shutdownCNBC has learned.

A White House official said the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics would “immediately resume” work on September CPI data. The report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on October 24, nine days later than originally scheduled. according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The official said the ministry had temporarily halted work on the Consumer Price Index report — which tracks a broad basket of goods and services for price changes over time — due to its lockdown plan. But the Social Security Administration needs third-quarter CPI data to calculate and publish annual cost-of-living adjustments before November 1.

Other BLS data releases including the Nonfarm Payrolls report It wasn’t It was published as originally intended since the federal government shut down due to funding cuts. On Thursday, the Senate failed to pass it Finance invoices For the seventh time, which would have ended the closure that began last week.

Bloomberg News Reported for the first time That the BLS was calling staff again to work on CPI data.

— CNBC’s Steve Lessman contributed to this report.

Correction: The Social Security Administration needs third-quarter CPI data to calculate and publish annual cost-of-living adjustments before November 1. A previous version misspelled the organization’s name.