The Internal Revenue Service will stop issuing most tax refunds by paper check starting Sept. 30, shifting taxpayers to electronic payment methods as part of a modernization push. The agency said it ...

(TNS) — Each month, Social Security recipients line up at shelters or charitable organizations to collect their monthly benefit checks. The recipients, some homeless and with mental health issues, ...

Over the next six months, all federal departments and agencies will phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments, according to the White House. As the U.S. accelerates toward a ...

Issuing a paper check costs about 50 cents, according to the Treasury Department. The cost drops down to less than 15 cents per electronic transfer. Tax law experts note that those who could struggle ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The IRS announced Tuesday that it will start phasing out paper checks for tax refunds in one week under a March executive order to move ...

Since the first benefit check was mailed in January 1940, Social Security has been providing a financial foundation for the American public. Though it was initially conceived as a program that would ...

The Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department and other parts of the federal government plan to phase out the use of paper checks for payments by the end of this month, in keeping with an ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order will cease the use of paper checks come September for things like tax refunds in addition to benefits, intragovernmental, and vendor monetary disbursements.

The federal government is moving one step closer to getting out of the business of handing out paper checks, effective Sept. 30. We're talking about the end of paper checks for tax refunds, as well as ...