Canadians have billions in uncashed cheques, rebates. Are you one of them?
Millions of paper cheques from the government valued at more than $2 billion dollars since 2022 that have been sent out to Canadians -- and have not been cashed.
#finance #government #Canada #Consumer #Money #Cheques
https://globalnews.ca/news/11643131/canadian-government-cheques-not-cashed/

Canadians have billions in uncashed cheques, rebates. Are you one of them?
Millions of paper cheques from the government valued at more than $2 billion dollars since 2022 that have been sent out to Canadians -- and have not been cashed.
#finance #government #Canada #Consumer #Money #Cheques
https://globalnews.ca/news/11643131/canadian-government-cheques-not-cashed/

Canadians have billions in uncashed cheques, rebates. Are you one of them?
Millions of paper cheques from the government valued at more than $2 billion dollars since 2022 that have been sent out to Canadians -- and have not been cashed.
#finance #government #Canada #Consumer #Money #Cheques
https://globalnews.ca/news/11643131/canadian-government-cheques-not-cashed/

I'm an old and am very glad I rarely write checks anymore, because the first couple of weeks of January was when I kept writing the previous year.

#old #checks #cheques #newYear

Trump anunció el envío de cheques de 1.776 dólares a casi un millón y medio de militares antes de Navidad

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lapatilla.com/2025/12/18/trump-anuncio-el-envio-de-cheques-de-1-776-dolares-a-casi-un-millon-y-medio-de-militares-antes-de-navidad/

Print & Cheques Now revolutionizes business payments with 50% more secure manual cheques, next-day delivery, and advanced security features across Canada. Compliance meets innovation in financial documentation. #BusinessPayments #Cheques

@perkinsy

in 1972-74 the hostility to whitlam’s proposed new “medibank” scheme — from liberal party, press, AMA and others — was, imo, unbelievable. at first, doctors engaged in a campaign of non-co-operation, by refusing to accept “provider numbers”

australia was a nation resistant to change. we (whatever “we” means, given how many people had voted for whitlam) did not want socialist health care, and we did not want medibank creating a system of “ID cards by stealth”. (there were ID cards during WWII, administered by the local PO, but that was behind us.)

(indirectly related, but also a measure of attitudes and mindset, we were so resistant to change that when banks got together and created a credit card system — bankcard — people cut them up and returned the pieces to banks in protest. “we are NOT america, and we CAN pay our bills. we do NOT like debt or obligation”.)

medibank legislation (the original medicare) was at first modelled on the (presumably) practical health care system in canada, then gutted repeatedly before it could be passed. (and later scrapped by Fraser)

for a while, i worked in a section processing applications for medibank cards, and there was a whole campaign of people lodging dodgy applications (to clog up and discredit the system) which did not have very demanding ID requirements. there was a whole other section of the public returning their new medibank cards in protest.

if i remember correctly, the rationale for the cheque-to-doctor-via-patient was to re-assure change-resistant members of the public that doctors could not simply defraud the system by lodging excessive claims, and to allay fears australia would soon go broke because of whitlam’s mad plans. under this arrangement the patients were effectively providing an audit service.

to be fair, the world was very different in 1974, and to those who benefitted from it, the system probably didn’t seem anywhere near as inconvenient as having no health care at all.
but, yes, the world is very different now, and i’m astonished medicare are still doing things this way. i thought cheques were already done and dusted. if this doctor patient arrangement wasn’t so automated maybe someone would have found a way to change it, and save wages.
i guess politicians today are more inclined to tolerate medicare than to cherish it.

#Medicare #Cheques #Auspol #Change

Today I posted a letter. It fell with a clunk into an empty Australia Post letter box.

Why did I send a letter in this day and age? It is because Medicare still uses cheques. This scheme is called the Pay Doctor Via Claimant (PDVC) scheme and works something like this:
1. Doctor provides a service and the patient pays for the service including the doctor's gap fee.
2. Medicare mails (!!!) a cheque (!!!!) written to the name of the doctor. They mail this cheque to the doctor's patient (!!!), not directly to the doctor.
3. The legislators who devised this scheme years ago hoped that the patient would be good enough to then put the cheque into a new envelope and post the cheque to the doctor or otherwise give it to them!!! They hoped that this person is not a young person who has never seen a cheque, has no idea what it is, and just bins another piece of paper without really thinking about it. The legislators of yore thought that patients have a life mercifully low in life admin, working (or looking for a job), free of family care responsibilities and loads of free time to have the spare capacity to remember to do Medicare's job free of charge and mail the cheque. I am guessing the legislators of yore subconsciously assumed that the wife would be living a life of leisure with plenty of spare time and energy to do this task.
4. The legislators of yesteryear thought that it is a great use of the time of the admin staff of doctor's to find a bank branch (!!!) and bank the cheque. They thought that it is a great use of the time of the admin staff to reconcile services provided to patients and Medicare cheques received, then follow up every patient who may have forgotten to forward the cheque. The historic legislators thought that this scheme will thwart the dastardly doctors who seek to rip off Medicare.

Because of this convoluted scheme, Medicare has then had to create another scheme called the 90 Day Pay Doctor Scheme, where a doctor can apply for a cheque to be cancelled if it has not been sent to them by the patient etc. I kid you not: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/90-day-pay-doctor-cheque-scheme

Most Australians stopped using cheques years ago and are just waiting for the Australian government to discover that electronic banking is more efficient for everyone. The Australian federal government is hoping that by 30/6/2028 government services will no longer use cheques.

In 2025, the only one who really benefits from this scheme is probably Australia Post. I agree that retaining snail mail services has merits, even though less than 3% of letters are sent by individuals: https://theconversation.com/australia-post-wants-to-charge-more-for-stamps-next-year-heres-why-it-has-to-keep-letters-alive-244503

#Australia #MedicareAU #cheques #AustraliaPost

EES: Cuando los cheques fronterizos comenzarán para los viajeros de Dover, EuroStar y Eurotunnel #cheques #comenzarán #cuando #Dover #EES #EuroStar #Eurotunnel #fronterizos #los #para #viajeros #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/ees-cuando-los-cheques-fronterizos-comenzaran-para-los-viajeros-de-dover-eurostar-y-eurotunnel/?feed_id=41447&_unique_id=68bb40de7c0aa

RBI: New policy on clearance of cheques
https://vaartha.com/new-policy-on-cheque-clearance/business/530044/
#RBI #ChequeClearance #Cheques #ChequeTruncationSystem #CTS #FasterChequeClearance #BankingReforms #PaymentSystem #ContinuousClearing #FinancialInclusion #BankingUpdate #2025Policy #ChequeSettlement #IndiaBanking

#Edomex: Secretaría de Educación y Deporte arman #montaje, dan #cheques a menores de edad y se los quitan | Proceso

#Edomex: Secretaría de Educación y Deporte arman #montaje, dan #cheques a menores de edad y se los quitan | Proceso

http://efrainmartinezfigueroa.com/2025/07/07/edomex-secretaria-de-educacion-y-deporte-arman-montaje-dan-cheques-a-menores-de-edad-y-se-los-quitan-proceso/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Analistas critican que renuncia de ministro de Sedesol es insuficiente para esclarecer destino de 950 millones#Honduras #Renuncia #JoséCarlosCardona #Analistas #Cheques
https://tinyurl.com/23hcf7j6

🇺🇲 Comment un bureau du département du Trésor est devenu le point zéro de la guerre sur les dépenses fédérales américaines
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/doge-treasury-department-federal-spending/index.html
#USA #Trésor #guerre #paiements #dépenses #Congrès #président #justice #chèques #OOM #CNN #budget #DOGE

@unworthyBeatrix Yikes...

Cuz like even online-first banks here are usuaply part of 1 of 3 major banking groups (Sparkasse [public banl], GAD-Fiducia [cooperative-owned credit unions] & Cash Group [DeutscheBank, Postbank et. al.] and due to #SEPA #WireTransfer we basically don't have #Cheques for 20+ years nowadays...

@noybeu I just hope unlike #ClassAction in the #USA that means #Corporations have to actually #undo shit and not be able to just pay out some insultingly low #settlement in the form of #cheques noone will cashout due to high fees!

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2024/10/23/massive-auction-success/
A look at a remarkable auction that took place earlier today, one lot fetching almost £12,000! Also a gallery of my hobby photographs.
#auctions #coins #cheques #1911SpecimenSet #birds #insects #caterpillars #shieldbugs #heron

#UnpopularOpinion:

#ClassAction as a measure to deliver recourse against #Corporations is inherently #flawed, #unjust and cements the fact that "If the #penalty is a #fine, it's only #illegal for the #poor"!

In case you don't believe me that #ClassActions only exist to enrich #LawFirms and allow any #corporation to send out insultingly-low #cheques:

• #Valve literally changed their [luckily illegal in places with #ConsumerProtection like the #EU] #SteamSubscriberAgreement to basically force people [in the #USA and the rest of the world] to kiss their #Steam account goodbye if they choose to join a Class Action.

• #Sony's #OtherOsSettlement didn't force them to #reinstate the #OtherOs functionality on the #PS3 and only gave US comsumers tiny cheques! A core functionality that was as much of a seller of the product as #BackwardsCompatibility and #BluRay playback...

• No Class Action against #Apple forced them to #undo shit they purposefully designed into products - espechally their #AntiRepairDesign with #DRM that basically requires a RAT to authenticate parts which they do to this very day and which they literally patented...

(Don't even get me started on the shitshow that is #iCloudLock which I hope the @EUCommission will #ban as it's *infringing on #ConsumerRights re: #property and causes thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste...)

#Rant #US #UScentrism #AmericaCentrism #law #legal #ValueRemoving #RentSeeking #Consumer #PropertyRights #ITsec #IT #tech #SueHappy #SueHappyCulture