Only a small group of people get their Social Security payments by paper check, but that's set to end. What you should know about direct deposit.

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Martinez also defrauded the U.S. Treasury by cashing altered Treasury checks made payable to himself. Along with co-conspirators, Martinez obtained checks made payable to others and altered the ...

Mail theft complaints have increased substantially since 2020, the order noted, and Treasury checks in particular are 16 times more likely to be reported lost or stolen or returned as undeliverable.

President Donald Trump has targeted paper checks in a new executive order. Effective Sept. 30, 2025, the order directs the Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, to stop issuing paper checks ...

The legislation is meant to give replacement checks to taxpayers who had their “tax refunds from the U.S. Treasury stolen in the mail” to be deposited directly in personal bank accounts ...

The banking industry's effort to fight check fraud is likely to benefit from President ... The federal government is not immune to bad actors, either: The Treasury was itself breached by a Chinese ...

The U.S. Treasury now ... reports related to check fraud identified three outcomes. Some 44% of stolen checks were altered and then deposited, 26% were used as templates for counterfeit checks ...

A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to ...