{"id":43256,"date":"2025-08-04T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:57:09","slug":"social-security-will-stop-sending-paper-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43256\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security will stop sending paper checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; The federal government will soon stop sending out paper checks for federal payments, including social security beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is part of an effort to fully modernize federal benefit payments, save money and fight financial fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than half a million recipients, less than 1%, need to choose another way to receive their social security benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Recipients can choose either direct deposit or a pre-paid debit card known as Direct Express.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It starts on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you still need to receive a paper check, you can request a waiver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some exceptions will be made, such as if you are 90 or older, have a mental impairment or live in a very remote location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can apply for a waiver <a href=\"https:\/\/godirect.gov\/gpw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/godirect.gov\/gpw\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; The federal government will soon stop sending out paper checks for federal payments, including social security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,37930,99,37931,186,37929,184,185,37928,37927],"class_list":["post-43256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benefit-check","tag-business","tag-direct-express","tag-finance","tag-government-check","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-social-security-check","tag-social-security-checks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}