For the 2026 tax season, the IRS is moving fully to digital refunds, eliminating paper checks and requiring direct deposit.

Low-income families often use their refunds to pay for basics such as food and rent. And under the status quo, unbanked ...

On Dec. 21, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said that tariff dividend checks will need congressional approval. Hassett said the money for the checks could come from other revenue streams ...

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Over the past few months, rumors about stimulus checks have been making the rounds on the news and social media. Stimulus checks are direct federal payments the U.S. government has sent to households ...

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to pay out $2,000 stimulus checks funded in part by revenue from tariffs, though the idea has not been formally ...

More than $22 million in "Money Match" checks were mailed to nearly 100,000 Pennsylvanians, the treasury said. In a news release on Thursday, the Pennsylvania Treasury said people should be on the ...

President Donald Trump promised to use tariff revenue to send most Americans $2,000 checks. The president also promised to use tariff revenue for at least eight other initiatives, according to a ...

President Donald Trump has pushed the idea of sending $2,000 stimulus checks to middle- and low-income Americans. Trump said these checks would come as a result of the “hundreds of billions of dollars ...

President Donald Trump reiterated his plan to distribute a tariff dividend to Americans at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2. Trump first floated the idea in a Truth Social post Nov. 9. He has ...

The Federal Reserve is asking the public to weigh in on the future of its check-processing operations, signaling that significant cutbacks may be on the table as the use of paper checks in the United ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...