The use of personal checks is fading toward obscurity. We pay our bills online and Venmo the babysitter. The plumber takes credit cards and your food delivery payments are automatic. So why has ...

A thief stole 401(k) checks out of the mail. But why was Paychex, a major industry player, using paper at all given how often check fraud happens? By Ron Lieber This is the first dispatch in “How Did ...

Discover the meaning of a rain check, its origins, examples, and your rights as a consumer. Learn how rain checks work in retail and protect against unavailability.

The woman said employees at her credit union caught one instance of check washing earlier this year. She then had a series of ...

Issuing a paper check costs about 50 cents, according to the Treasury Department. The cost drops down to less than 15 cents per electronic transfer. Tax law experts note that those who could struggle ...

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 ...

Once considered an old-fashioned crime, check washing has roared back to life with alarming sophistication. Criminals are not just targeting personal checks anymore. They are exploiting every ...

Non-bank providers of checks commonly charge 5 to 24 cents per single check, while banks may charge their customers 38 to 65 cents, Bankrate research found. Before ordering checks from a third-party ...

The Trump administration could be sending out $5,000 checks to millions of people next summer if Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have their way. Musk posted on X that he “will ...

The state is sending out “inflation refund” checks of up to $400. Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed the program. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find out about the inflation refund ...

I've got some bad news for you today that will probably be as unsurprising as it is disappointing: Your check from Donald Trump is not in the mail. The president has spent much of the first year of ...

On a hot, drizzly Friday in August more than 51 years ago, I stood with other reporters on a temporary riser outside the East Wing of the White House. There, we watched as a disgraced Richard Nixon ...