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The federal government will stop using paper checks for benefits by September 30, 2025. Update your bank info now to keep ...
The U.S. Treasury now has approximately six months to phase out paper checks for various purposes, including tax refunds and Social Security payments. According to the White House, the Trump ...
WASHINGTON -- An executive order signed by President Donald Trump last month is overhauling the way the government issues payments, including tax refunds. Starting Sept. 30, the Secretary of the ...
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 ...
Trump has made eradicating government inefficiency a major goal in the first 100 days of his presidency, but the push to ditch paper checks predates this administration: A Treasury Department ...
"Historically, Treasury checks are 16 times more likely to be reported lost or stolen, returned undeliverable, or altered than an electronic funds transfer," the order stated. "Maintaining the ...
Garrity said about 7,300 will receive checks, totaling $1.7 million, will be sent out this round. Most of them received letters in January indicating that the unclaimed property would be returned ...
The banking industry's effort to fight check fraud is likely to benefit from President Donald Trump's order to the Treasury Department to stop issuing paper checks for federal disbursements and to ...
Key Takeaways Shares of Cantor Equity Partners—a blank check company headed by the son of President Trump's commerce ...
Davenport police have arrested two men who allegedly conspired to deposit a counterfeit U.S. Treasury check, complete with ultraviolet ink and watermark, of more than $54,000 into an account at ...