{"id":59084,"date":"2025-08-05T02:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:16:17","slug":"social-security-will-stop-sending-paper-checks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59084\/","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":58082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[43803,28,43804,43802,147,530,43801,10189],"class_list":{"0":"post-59084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-benefit-check","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-direct-express","11":"tag-government-check","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance","14":"tag-social-security-check","15":"tag-social-security-checks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}