Social Security Says It Won’t Eliminate Paper Checks for Some Beneficiaries

‘Where a beneficiary has no other means to receive payment, we will continue to issue paper checks,’ the agency says.

Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on Feb. 11, 2005. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

The Social Security Administration (SSA) will not phase out the sending of paper benefit checks to all recipients by Sept. 30, a spokesperson confirmed.

In a statement to The Epoch Times on July 28, an SSA spokesperson said that some Social Security beneficiaries will still receive checks in certain circumstances, but noted that the agency is working to lessen the number of paper checks being sent out.