Viral claims of IRS stimulus checks in October 2025 are false; no official announcements exist, and such posts may be scams.

The tax agency’s Sept. 30 deadline matches a March executive order to modernize payments across the federal government.

In a move to make payments more efficient and to reduce the risk of fraud, the federal government is changing both how they ...

The IRS will phase out the use of paper checks for refunds beginning Sept. 30 and will publish detailed guidance later.

According to a Tuesday IRS release, paper checks will be “phased out” starting Sept. 30 “to the extent permitted by law.” It’s a “first step of the broader transition to electronic payments,” the IRS ...

In keeping with the new federal mandate against paper checks, the U.S. tax agency announced that as of Sept. 30, it will no longer issue paper refund checks. The move, the agency said, is the first ...

Beginning on Sept. 30, 2025, paper tax refund checks will be phased out of use, as required by Executive Order 14247. This change is the first step in the IRS and the U.S Department of the Treasury’s ...

Filing your tax return on paper can also lead to delays. The IRS processes electronic returns much faster, typically within three weeks, while paper returns can take six weeks or more. To expedite ...

The Trump White House set a Sept. 30 deadline for the Treasury Department to stop cutting paper checks, although the IRS said ...

The Internal Revenue Service, working with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, today announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning on Sept. 30, 2025, as ...

As the October IRS deadline approaches, taxpayers face changes in filing options and rules that could affect millions of ...