According to this post on the Chicago Tribune the US Treasury has been campaigning this year to get Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients to switch to a prepaid debit card. Currently, millions of Americans are getting a check from SS at the end of the month.
Every year the US Treasury receives about 1.4 million complaints from SS recipients, and so Direct Express is a safe, convenient way for recipients to get their government money without worrying about fraud. Sending prepaid cards instead of checks also saves the government a lot of money. 500,000 people so far have signed up to receive their government benefits through prepaid debit cards, but when will the rest of Americans join?
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