While it’s easy to simply swipe your debit card at the cash register or to pay your bills online, the paper check has not yet met its demise. There are still times when writing a check is the most ...

A bad check is one drawn on a nonexistent account or with insufficient funds. Learn about potential legal consequences and ...

The amount of checks is typically limited to a certain number each month, but not all financial institutions have these limitations. If you write a lot of checks during your regular billing cycle, you ...

Typewriters vanished, and then cassette tapes and encyclopedias did, too. But paper checks are one piece of our analog past that persists. American consumers and businesses wrote 11.2 billion checks ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

Although most consumers rely heavily on credit cards, debit cards and other digital payment methods, Americans still have to write checks occasionally. According to data from the Federal Reserve, ...

A big banking industry group, not surprisingly perhaps, suggests that consumers stop writing paper checks to stamp out the proliferation of check washing scams. Stop writing checks? It's seriously one ...

When you think of philanthropy, what comes to mind? Writing a check? A name on a building? Most people think philanthropy is off the table for them because it requires money they need for themselves.