Tanner Aliff is a Young Voices associate Contributor who formerly worked on IRS congressional casework. Last March, I got an extra $1,400 check from the IRS—money I shouldn’t have received. I had ...

Too often solving one problem creates others. Take Check 21. By allowing check conversion to electronic form the sensible idea was to reduce costs and speed processing. The problem is that with ...

SunTrust Banks Inc. is installing software designed to keep it from processing the same check twice. As banks convert more checks into digital images, the risk of checks being posted twice rises. This ...

The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers as much as $128 million in extra payments, according to a new watchdog report out this ...