About 500,000 people were still getting paper checks — including people over age 80, living with disabilities or without ...

Sending paper checks via mail is slow and costly. The Social Security Administration and the IRS are ceasing the longtime ...

Starting Sept. 30, 2025, the Social Security Administration will stop issuing paper checks for benefit payments.

The first wave of Social Security payments for the month of October is set to be sent this week. Here's what recipients need ...

The order impacts “all Federal disbursements inclusive of intragovernmental payments, benefits payments, vendor payments, and ...

The Social Security Administration a couple of ways to receive payments electronically. Here's how Wisconsin recipients can make the switch.

The Social Security Administration is transitioning to electronic payments next week after 85 years of issuing paper checks to U.S. retirees.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has issued a new reminder about a major update that will begin affecting more than half a million beneficiaries in a matter of days.

The government is planning to phase out paper checks for most consumers receiving Social Security benefits and other federal ...

The Social Security Administration is making changes it says will improve efficiency and strengthen the program. Some of the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Kathleen Romig from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about the end of physical Social Security checks.

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 ...