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I'm the primary breadwinner in our family- my husband stays home with the kids and works part-time for extra spending money. A couple of weeks ago we tried to cash his paycheck at the drive through of the local bank that issued it instead of depositing it at our credit union. They told us we had to come in, he had to show 2 pieces of picture ID (he only has one, by the way) and get fingerprinted- just to cash a paycheck!! We thought it was just the bank policy but now I am not too sure.

Your story reminded me of about 30 yrs ago our little local BoA branch [has since closed] knew everybody, their kids, dogs, horses and what car we drove. Never had to show ID to cash a check nor when making a withdrawal. How times have changed. I was in a local branch of Wells Fargo not too long ago and a poor guy was just where your husband was with only one ID and the teller couldn't help him with a suggestion for another picture ID...standing next to the poor guy I piped up and told him to get a passport. Great for second ID. The teller looked surprised and said, yeah that would work.