21.   If prices were high, farmers got no checks.

22.   In exchange they would get a check every year, regardless of what happens to their crops or market prices.

23.   Investors will get a check for fractional shares.

24.   Late filers and those who got extensions will be in the back of the line and could get their checks in October or later.

25.   Like Social Security recipients and disabled veterans, they continue to get their checks on time during a shutdown.

26.   Many Americans get unemployment checks on the first day of the month.

27.   Margaret Allaire had been unemployed for a few months and had no immediate job prospects when she got a large, unexpected check in the mail last summer.

28.   Ms. Perez gets her check on the third day of the month, and by the end of the day it is almost gone.

29.   Nonetheless, the University of Washington hospital and others around the country billed Medicare and got reimbursement checks totaling millions of dollars, Roth said.

30.   Not only would you have a tidy write-off, but you might also be able to offset some past earnings and get a check from Uncle Sam.