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Monday, March 5, 2012

Switch to Federal Benefits Electronic Payment

The U.S. Department of Treasury requires all federal benefit recipients to get their federal benefit payments electronically instead of by paper check before March 1, 2013. If you are currently get your federal benefit payments by paper check, you’re requested to switch now. If you have an existing checking or savings account, you can choose to get benefit payments by direct deposit into your existing bank account. Or else, you can choose to sign up for the Direct Express card, a prepaid debit MasterCard recommended by U.S Treasury. You can switch to electronic payments online easily.

Using electronic way to get your federal benefits payments is a safer, easier and more reliable way than paper checks for federal benefit recipients. Switching from paper check to electronic payment way is easy to complete on Go Direct website, so you don’t need to worry about that.