Latest Breaking News

intelpug

(140 posts)

18. Paper checks

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:05 PM

Jul 17

Maybe for some, But most of these people probably go to a bank to cash the check anyway so what's the difference? I remember years ago more than once being handed a paper paycheck out in the rain on payday and hoping it wouldn't just melt in my wallet till I could get it to the bank. Trouble was the job didn't end till 5:00 and the banks were all closed then. The married guy's could get the wife to take it but guy's like me had to get someone else to or cash it that night at one of a couple of bars in town that kept enough cash on hand (200,000 on hand I learned later) to handle payroll checks, Not always a good Idea to be handed several hundred cash over the bar with other patrons looking on, ( early eighties, a few hundred was something) and Heh Heh, It tended to keep you at the bar later than you intended most times :

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

2 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

progree SickOfTheOnePct

44 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Social Security to end paper checks after Sept. 30 [View all] BumRushDaShow Jul 17 OP

Yeah, and for the unbanked who used the USPS intrepidity Jul 17 #1

Direct deposit costs nothing synni Jul 17 #11

"Unbanked" nt intrepidity Jul 17 #19

So get banked Polybius Jul 18 #30

Or get the debit card n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #31

.... intrepidity Jul 18 #33

The only fee... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #35

... intrepidity Jul 18 #32

That's exactly how I feel about seniors who refuse to abide by modern technology Polybius Jul 18 #34

Wow....I thought those had ended 10-15 years ago Bengus81 Jul 17 #2

They tried but there is the same issue BumRushDaShow Jul 17 #5

I haven't received a paper paycheck since the early 1990's. Dr. T Jul 18 #22

fewer than 1%. and those people are getting the side eye stopdiggin Jul 17 #3

The government could provide help to those who find it difficult to make the change. twodogsbarking Jul 17 #4

With a call wait time of only 2 days!!!11!!!!1!! BumRushDaShow Jul 17 #6

I've been on hold since 1994. They said not to hang up or I would wait even longer. twodogsbarking Jul 17 #7

They did contract out under the table BumRushDaShow Jul 17 #8

"One ringy dingy..." n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 17 #13

It was a job. twodogsbarking Jul 17 #15

Yes because so many rural areas are without reliable internet and cellphone service FakeNoose Jul 17 #9

Help me understand why not having a local bank is a problem? I have lived 2000 sinkingfeeling Jul 17 #10

There are people in a number of blighted urban locales BumRushDaShow Jul 17 #12

Some elderly people don't know how to do online banking. NH Ethylene Jul 17 #14

Exactly. Thank you for pointing that out, NH. Not everyone FemDemERA Jul 18 #36

I wonder what financial corporation will benefit from all of those prepaid cards? Buddyzbuddy Jul 17 #16

Direct Express SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #26

Thank you for the information. (Comments not directed at you SOTOP) And that charge would "only" occur Buddyzbuddy Jul 18 #37

It isn't Direct Express, it's the owners of the ATMs n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #38

Federal civil service paychecks were Deminpenn Jul 17 #17

My lab supervisor had a big safe in his office BumRushDaShow Jul 18 #20

Paper checks intelpug Jul 17 #18

A move away from GPO goverment printing office? LiberalArkie Jul 18 #21

I don't think they print the checks BumRushDaShow Jul 18 #23

I guess it has changed, it used to be way back when I would get actual IRS refund checks that they LiberalArkie Jul 18 #24

My dad used to work at the VA from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s BumRushDaShow Jul 18 #25

Paper checks came from the Treasury, just like your tax refund checks do Deminpenn Jul 18 #39

Social Security to end Paper Checks after Sep 30 CRB Jul 18 #27

What about people who can't have bank accounts due to old debts where accounts get attached? Liberty Belle Jul 18 #28

Debit card n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #29

That only works if you have stores that will take them BumRushDaShow Jul 18 #40

I can't help but wonder... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 18 #41

To respond BumRushDaShow Jul 18 #43

I don't believe SS can be garnished by collection agencies MichMan Jul 19 #44

Thought Rebl2 Jul 18 #42