Thanks to the convenience of online and mobile bill pay, fewer people use checks to pay bills. You may be surprised to learn that the average American still writes 30 checks per year, according to ...

With the rise of peer-to-peer payment systems such as PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and several others, there’s rarely a need to write a check these days. Even so, checks aren’t completely extinct yet. Maybe ...

The U.S. government is phasing out paper checks for most programs. The change starts Tuesday and affects recipients of ...

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The first wave of direct deposit Social Security payments for the month of October is set to be sent to recipients this week, ...