Don’t wait for Social Security check in a mail

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting subsequent year, a check will no longer be in a mail for millions of people who accept Social Security and other government benefits.
The federal government, that issues 73 million payments a month, is phasing out paper checks for all advantage programs, requiring people to get payments electronically, possibly by approach deposition or a repel label for those though a bank account.
The changes will impact people who get Social Security, veterans benefits, tyrannise pensions and sovereign incapacity payments. Tax refunds are exempt, though a Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to get refunds electronically by estimate those refunds faster than paper checks.
About 90 percent of people who accept sovereign advantages already get their payments electronically, a Treasury Department says. New beneficiaries were compulsory to get payments electronically starting final year, and with a few exceptions, a rest will have to make a switch by Mar 2013...