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Posted: 9:44 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. —
More than 63,000 Social Security and Supplementary Security Income recipients in West Virginia still receive paper benefit checks.
But that will change on March 1, when the federal government switches all benefit and non-tax government payments to electronic payments.
Federal data show West Virginia has the highest percentage – at 12 percent -- of Social Security and SSI recipients who receive paper checks.
West Virginia AARP director Tom Hunter told the Charleston Daily Mail that many older residents have resisted the switch to electronic payments.
Hunter said AARP is going to make a push to notify people of the change.
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