This includes Social Security payments, a small number of which are still issued via paper checks. Critics of the policy have said it could have negative impacts on vulnerable recipients, while supporters have said the change is long overdue.

Ida Mae Fuller got the first Social Security check in 1940. Now, 85 years later, the last beneficiaries to receive paper Social Security checks will get theirs in the mail in September. President Trump signed an executive order in March requiring Treasury Department payments to be made electronically — eliminating paper checks,