While it’s so 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 times when writing a check is the ...

But I didn't think about how to write a check to give as a wedding gift until I became a bride myself. In fact, it never even occurred to me to think there might be a "right" and "wrong" way to ...

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Generally, the only time you don’t need an ID is to deposit a check through an ATM or sign it over to someone else. You don’t need to know how to write a check, but you need to endorse it.

check fraud is on the rise. More than half of Americans still write checks. Check writing hit its peak in the 1990s, and let’s face it, old habits may be hard to break. But, according to the ...

Writing out paper checks raises the chances of being the target of fraud and theft. The WSJ personal-finance team’s Oyin Adedoyin joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss ways to reduce those risks.

Your mind races through various options — one of which may sound like a latently illegal financial hack: writing a check to yourself. But can you write a check to yourself? It’s a simple ...