The Treasury Department will stop issuing paper checks for tax refunds, Social Security payments and most other government programs on Sept. 30 as part of an executive order aimed at modernizing the ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Paper checks were already dying a slow death. President Donald Trump on March 25 signed an executive order mandating that all federal departments and ...

President Trump claims the cost of maintenance for digitizing paper records was over $657 million in fiscal year 2024.

WASHINGTON -- An executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year is overhauling the way the government handles financial transactions. Starting Sept. 30, the Secretary of the ...

This tax-return filing season might be the last time you send payments to the Internal Revenue Service using paper checks, or the last time you receive refunds on paper. A Trump Administration ...

The executive order will “modernize how the government handles ... “Despite a continued decline in business and consumer use of checks, check fraud has continued to rise.” Check fraud, mail theft and ...