1.   In San Francisco, new Social Security claims are being processed and benefit checks are being mailed on schedule.

2.   Also, nearly everyone who has been receiving benefit checks will continue to receive those checks.

3.   American Legion spokesman Phil Budahn expressed concern that veterans who depend on VA benefit checks might act prematurely to borrow money at excessively high rates.

4.   Benefit checks for more than four million veterans and their survivors should arrive Thursday, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday.

5.   Both chambers approved a resolution Friday freeing money to back a flood of government benefit checks for constituents.

6.   A smaller proportion of African-Americans receive retirement benefits and, when they do, their monthly benefit check is smaller on average, due to lower earnings.

7.   Currently, insurers and workers often fight over an injury claim in cumbersome and time-consuming hearings that can delay benefit checks for months.

8.   Direct deposits of paychecks and benefit checks rob the Postal Service of other potential revenue.

9.   Eligibility rules for the plan in which he could be enrolled would delay his first benefit check until June of that year.

10.   For decades, the American private pension system has been dominated by plans that promise a steady benefit check from the company to the worker from retirement to death.