SHitler is ordering Social Security to STOP sending paper checks...

[CousinIT]

SHitler is ordering Social Security to STOP sending paper checks, which will result in a half million people NOT getting their payments: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-social-security-paper-checks-direct-deposit

Nearly half a million Americans will be affected by President Trump's order that will cease Social Security payments by paper check.

Why it matters: The switch risks disrupting the financial lives of some of the most vulnerable Americans, at a time when Social Security is cutting back services to help them.

Driving the news: The federal government must stop issuing paper checks by Sept. 30 in favor of direct deposit, prepaid cards, or "other digital payment options," per an order Trump signed yesterday.

The move is part of a broader White House effort against what it considers government waste, fraud and abuse.

The order includes language allowing for "limited exceptions," including for people without bank accounts.

By the numbers: Nearly 456,000 Americans are still receiving paper Social Security checks as of March, per Social Security Administration data.

That's about 0.7% of the approximately 68.2 million total recipients.

What they're saying: "The continued use of paper-based payments ... imposes unnecessary costs; delays; and risks of fraud, lost payments, theft, and inefficiencies," per Trump's order.

"Maintaining the physical infrastructure and specialized technology for digitizing paper records cost the American taxpayer over $657 million in Fiscal Year 2024 alone."

[JBTaurus83]

1. How much

Do his weekly golf trips cost us?

[Meowmee]

2. Not good, I hope it gets nixed

I had planned to do that. I guess a separate stand alone bank account is the way to go if this happens.

[intrepidity]

3. And they will all have to go, IN PERSON, to an office

(if they can find one) to update their payment info.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. Many poor people can't open bank accounts if they have poor credit.

[CousinIT]

6. Those without bank accounts are told to use "DirectExpress" debit card:

https://www.ssa.gov/deposit/howtosign.htm

[dweller]

5. He'll have

A bitcoin option soon


✌🏻

[RazorbackExpat]

12. There will be several crypto options

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$trumpcoin, $melaniacoin, $muskcoin, $vancecoin, $dogecoin, $666coin, etc.

[Seinan Sensei]

24. Personally, I think tRump

should get his salary totally 100% in pennies

[Silent Type]

7. He is giving notice, guess we should be thankful. If they do it right -- which is a big "if" with trump--

SSA could make that work in that they mentioned prepaid cards, etc., for everyone.

If properly implemented, with steps to insure no one is adversely impacted, it makes sense.

[CousinIT]

8. Cutting off phone services right now when those people will need help with the transition is evil though.

Dumbasses.

They do mention debit cards that are replenished every month for those without bank accounts: https://www.ssa.gov/deposit/howtosign.htm

[Silent Type]

9. Read an hour or so ago that they are modifying their earlier phone service BS. Will have to see it, though.

[exboyfil]

27. It is almost like they don't have a clue what they are doing

And instead of this fiat by a date that is very close, a better approach would be a transition period. First checks are no longer an option for new recipients and then a small reward for converting to direct deposit.

[sdfernando]

18. He is trying to make

SS unworkable….singe can say “See it doesn’t work!” So he can privatize it….like his handlers have trying to get at for decades.

[question everything]

10. And skip an opportunity to add his signature to the checks?

[synni]

11. I thought checks had long since been eradicated already

When my mom retired in 1999, she had to receive her checks via direct deposit. When I was accepted for SSI last year, I wasn't allowed to receive checks, either.

I'm surprised that anyone still receives checks, esp. as unreliable as DeJoy's USPS has been lately....

[William Gustafson]

13. So....

He closes offices... shuts down the phone centers... has a skeleton crew left... and now they are stopping sending a paper check?...
Guess when you have to call to change your banking information, there will be no one to call and no place to go...

How is this bettering the program?... answer... It doesn't!! and thousands of people will be in the SSI trap of unable to get any help...

[Skittles]

14. I heard if you need to change bank info you have to show up in person

yes, they are aiming to break SS

[taxi]

15. It is also possible that those receiving paper checks

may not have credit or debit cards, or even transportation. A family member may be depositing the check in their own account because the payer cannot leave the residence. Any items needed by the payee are obtained by giving cash to someone in order for them to make the purchase. In these cases a debit card does not good. The grocery store may know the buyer is using someone else's card and refuse the transaction. Vendors at farmers markets generally take cash. Those unscrupulous people who prey on the downtrodden may charge a little bit extra to 'offset their risks'. Like all things republican it's never about improving things from the bottom up.

[pfitz59]

16. Prepaid cards charge a fee

huge ripoff

[AmericaUnderSiege]

17. Without paper, there is no paper trail.

"We already gave it to you." "No, you didn't." "Yes, we did. Says right here on Notepad... (types furiously)...see?"

[BidenRocks]

19. This day it's paper checks

Tomorrow he will order us into the metric system.
2.2 pounds in a kilo

[vapor2]

21. CALL republicans re: social security

Call every.single.republican.

[CousinIT]

29. 511.org

https://5calls.org/issue/social-security-ssa-doge-office-closures/

[Karasu]

22. First the in-person verification bullshit, now this. They are trying everything they can think of to kill off SS without

having DOGE do it.

[IcyPeas]

23. Wait! He said he'd pay Elon with a check for a tesla: WATCH

Watch the first 10 seconds !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

25. That last line is a totally BS excuse.

All SS checks are produced BY COMPUTER and printing the checks is only the last step -- the digital record is ALREADY in the computer system. The incremental cost is minimal; computers have been doing this for over seven decades.

The huge figure for "digitizing paper records" refers to old records -- birth certificates, contracts, maps, etc. that were ORIGINALLY produced on paper ONLY and are now being scanned into a digital format. That has NOTHING TO DO with the cost of printing SS checks. It's a pathetically implausible fig leaf of an excuse.

[ms liberty]

28. Thanks for beating me to it, lol.

Such a bs excuse.

[Wiz Imp]

31. Right. Based on current numbers, they are printing less than 6 million SS checks a year

How much could that possibly cost? Well under a million dollars for sure.

[yellowcanine]

32. Yeah, digitizing paper records has zero to do with printing checks.

This was pulled right out of Musk’s ass.

[dsc]

36. actually the mail delivery would be a non trivial cost

it would be a dollar so per check.

[progressoid]

26. Those numbers sound like they were pulled out of Donny's fat ass.

[yellowcanine]

33. More likely pulled out of Musk's ass.

Donny doesn’t know any of this shit, he is listening to Musk.

[eppur_se_muova]

34. That's kind of what I was trying to say. :)

You and Tammy Duckworth ...

[yellowcanine]

30. Debit cards are bullshit. I don't see how they are safer

Than paper checks. This dicking around with SS is a huge unforced error by Trump. People are nervous and don’t trust Trump or Musk to reform SS. This one issue is going to sink Republicans in special elections and in 2026.

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Debit cards usually carry fees -- issuers will profit.

That's one reason why Uglicans are trying to force gov't to use cards for everything.