(Washington, DC) – Changes are coming for Social Security beneficiaries who receive paper checks.
The Social Security Administration announced that starting on September 30th it would no longer issue paper checks. Now beneficiaries must opt to have their benefit payments delivered electronically by direct deposit; or, if they don’t have a bank account, receive their benefit payments on a pre-paid debit card known as Direct Express.
A Social Security spokesperson said the administration is “proactively contacting” beneficiaries to alert them about the change and noted that if “a beneficiary has no other means to receive payment, we will continue to issue paper checks.”
