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Getting Stimulus Funds To Those Who Need Them — Without The Paper Check

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As reported, those Americans with direct deposit account information stored with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — the conduit through which they get refunds — will get those payments within a few weeks after legislation is finalized and signed. That’s about 70 million Americans.

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Wells Fargo On Why First Impressions Are Key In Digital Banking

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In March, the number of [mobile] checks deposited was up 40 percent over February, for example. Mobile deposits, meanwhile, were up over 80 percent in April 2020 compared to April 2019.”.

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Will COVID And Fraud Finally Kill The Paper Check?

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The IRS has reportedly gotten much of the money back, putting out instructions for those who received checks for dead family members on how to return it. And it turns out that sending checks to dead people isn’t the government’s only worry; the whole process is a creating a health risk at the IRS. Case in point are the roughly $1.4

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