Three people have been indicted for their roles in a daring and illegal plan involving a stolen U.S. Treasury check ... a key part of the scam—by putting the stolen check into an account under ...

In an executive order, President Donald Trump outlawed paper checks in favor of going all in on electronic payments.

Some people in Pennsylvania will receive checks last month that aren't tax refunds. Fortunately, these checks are legitimate.

Use of paper checks by U.S. businesses jumped last year, according to an annual survey by the Association for Financial ...

In an Executive Order (EO) signed on March 25, President Trump directed the Department ... from mail theft, fraud and lost payments. (According to the White House, Treasury checks are 16 times ...

Check fraud has grown as a concern for the banking industry ... noted following the order that paper checks are also a low volume of Treasury payments. In 2024, the department issued 36 million paper ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) reported in September that mail theft-related check fraud totaled more than $688 million between February 2023 ...

30, 2025, the order directs the Treasury Department ... such as checks and money orders, impose unnecessary costs; delays; and risks of fraud, lost payments, theft, and inefficiencies," the ...

The Department of Education announced Monday it will restart collections on defaulted federal student loans on May 5, ...