{"id":4574,"date":"2025-08-29T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westport.org\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:42:21","slug":"treasury-announces-federal-government-will-phase-out-paper-checks-on-september-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/treasury-announces-federal-government-will-phase-out-paper-checks-on-september-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Announces Federal Government Will Phase Out Paper Checks on September 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>Treasury Announces Federal Government Will Phase Out Paper Checks on September 30th<\/h2>\r\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that the federal government will stop issuing paper checks for federal benefits after September 30th, 2025.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you still receive a paper check for your federal benefits, you will have to switch to direct deposit to receive them. You can do so by going to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/godirect.gov\/gpw\/\">GoDirect.gov<\/a> <\/strong>or calling the Electronic Payment Solution Center at 800-967-6857.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>You can also learn more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0223\">U.S. Department of the Treasury&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fed-govt-checks\" src=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/fed-govt-checks.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Government and Checks\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Announces Federal Government Will Phase Out Paper Checks on September 30th The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that the federal government will stop issuing paper checks for federal benefits after September 30th, 2025. If you still receive a paper check for your federal benefits, you will have to switch to direct deposit to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-promos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}