Paper checks are no longer the normal way the federal government pays people. Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service says the government stopped issuing paper checks for most federal payments starting September 30, 2025, and its public notice still tells anyone who gets a check to switch to electronic payment. The Fiscal Service runs the…

Anyone who applies for Supplemental Security Income has to let Social Security look at their bank accounts, and the agency treats a refusal as a reason the applicant cannot be paid. The permission is a condition of the program, written into Social Security’s rules, and the agency checks balances through an automated process it calls…

Synovus accounts and branches are due to convert to Pinnacle in the first half of 2027, according to the bank’s merger questions-and-answers page. Pinnacle says it expects system conversions in that window, “likely around the beginning of the second quarter,” and that Synovus offices will be rebranded as Pinnacle at the same time. No exact…

A federal refund does not have to land in a checking account at a bank. For people who do not have one, the IRS says another route exists: pre-paid debit cards and mobile payment applications. The agency’s page on the CP53E notice sends readers to its ModernPayments page for those options. A CP53E is the…