An annual survey of treasury and other financial department executives in January turned up a startling result: U.S. businesses significantly increased their use of paper checks last year.

The banking industry's effort to fight check fraud is likely to benefit from President Donald Trump's order to the Treasury Department to stop issuing paper checks for federal disbursements and to ...

President Donald Trump has targeted paper checks in a new executive order. Effective Sept. 30, 2025, the order directs the Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, to stop issuing paper checks ...

CNBC reported that the U.S. Treasury Department is slowly eliminating paper checks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring all federal departments and agencies to switch ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order calling on the federal government to phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments by September 30, with some ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at switching the federal government off paper checks. The executive order could help prod the rest of the U.S. payment system to follow ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that bans the federal government from issuing paper checks as payment, transitioning all agencies to digital methods of transferring funds by Sept. 30.

In an executive order issued March 25, President Donald Trump mandated that government agencies cease issuing paper checks for all disbursements — including tax refunds, Social Security payouts ...

If you're already receiving a paper check, Social Security offers a variety of ways to switch to direct deposit. One option is to call the Social Security Administration at 800-772-1213.

President Donald Trump has targeted paper checks in a new executive order signed March 25. What's that mean to you? If you still mail a paper check to pay your taxes, or get a refund via a check ...

If you're already receiving a paper check, Social Security offers a variety of ways to switch to direct deposit. One option is to call the Social Security Administration at 800-772-1213.

The days when employees and dependents will use paper checks to pay medical bills may be ending. Health care payment analysts at J.P. Morgan put data on the dwindling use of paper checks in the ...