WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration has announced it will stop sending out physical checks to recipients, moving exclusively to electronic forms of payment. The change will happen on Sept.

Starting October 28, the USCIS will no longer accept checks or money orders for immigration fees. This shift to electronic payments aims to modernize processes and reduce administrative burdens.

In a move to make payments more efficient and to reduce the risk of fraud, the federal government is changing both how they receive taxpayers’ payments as well as how they make payments to others.

The Social Security Administration is transitioning away from paper checks. Later this year, only electronic payments will be used for benefit payments, the agency announced July 14 as part of an ...

The government is planning to phase out paper checks for most consumers receiving Social Security benefits and other federal payments starting Tuesday. The transition is prompted by an executive order ...