{"id":2630,"date":"2026-03-13T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:56:16","slug":"irs-phase-out-paper-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/2026\/03\/13\/irs-phase-out-paper-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS phase-out paper checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal News Network article by Jory Heckman on March 10, 2026 titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/management\/2026\/03\/irs-phase-out-of-paper-checks-leaves-some-taxpayers-waiting-months-for-refunds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS phase-out of paper checks leaves some taxpayers waiting months for refunds.<\/strong><\/a> \u201cHundreds of thousands of taxpayers are facing extended wait times to receive their tax refunds from the IRS amid a governmentwide push to phase out paper checks.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee said more than 830,000 taxpayers have received notices from the IRS stating their refunds are delayed, because they did not provide banking information necessary to receive those refunds via direct deposit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IRS has also announced that they will not be accepting paper checks after 2027 for tax payments. Customers should plan ahead an consider creating an online account with the IRS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers need to plan ahead for refunds to be process quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/graphic-IRS-logo.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}