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To: C19fan
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.

27 posted on 12/12/2014 10:26:26 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: USS Alaska

It’s an EBT card in PA. Unless each state is different I can’t imagine a welfare check coming in the mail anymore these days.


28 posted on 12/12/2014 10:28:42 AM PST by angcat
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