The Internal Revenue Service announced in late 2025 that it is phasing out paper refund checks. Find out what this means for you.

The National Taxpayer Advocate estimates that over 10 million taxpayers previously received their IRS refund as a paper check.

IRS tax refunds and Social Security paper checks are typically delivered online now. Will that impact your money?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal government is moving one step closer to getting out of the business of handing out paper checks, effective Sept. 30.

Paper checks were already dying a slow death. President Donald Trump on March 25 signed an executive order mandating that all federal departments and agencies end their use of paper checks and switch ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government starts phasing out paper checks for most programs on Tuesday. The change, which was initiated through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March ...