[C19fan]

If you read the article her monthly welfare check was lost in the mail so she was out of money to buy food.

[sheana]

I give charity once a month when taxes are held out of our retirement checks.

[sheana]

Officers also set up a fund at People’s First Federal Credit Union in Tarrant with all the money pouring in destined to be handed to the Johnson family.

And she’ll have to claim all that money to social services and they’ll cut off her welfare check. lol No good deed goes unpunished.

[driftless2]

Not ever having been on welfare, I don't know all the procedures. But I would bet welfare checks get lost on a regular basis. Which is why many states went to electronic transfers. In any event, I would guess the welfare recipient would get on the phone an contact a case worker if the check didn't arrive.

Honestly, if you, like millions of Americans, depended on welfare to feed your family, would you not contact the welfare office if your check didn't arrive? You certainly wouldn't let your family go without food. And where are her extended family members and friends? And I thought most welfare was now electronically transmitted. EBT cards and all that.

[USS Alaska]

If you read the article her monthly welfare check was lost in the mail so she was out of money to buy food.

In an effort to cut spending, federal officials began retiring paper checks in favor of direct deposits and prepaid "Direct Express" debit cards in May 2011. Since then, the Treasury Department has required all new recipients of payments from federal benefits programs -- including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income disability, Veterans Affairs and government pension plans -- to sign up for electronic payments. It set a March 1, 2013, deadline for all other recipients to do the same.

Is a welfare "check" paper or electronic, since I never got one {I just pay for them} I really don't know.