21.   Called a refund anticipation loan, it is repaid when the tax preparer receives a refund check from the government.

22.   Drug use was particularly heavy on the first of the month after residents received checks for public assistance, the affidavit said.

23.   During the shutdown Medicare, Social Security and welfare beneficiaries would continue to receive checks, but no new applications would be processed.

24.   Even though the government partly closed, people still received government checks.

25.   Farmers began receiving settlement checks through their seed salespeople last week, said Robert McCarty, the chief regulator of the Mississippi Agriculture and Commerce Department.

26.   Federal statistics show that, before the reforms, more than two-thirds of the alcholics and drug addicts collecting SSI received their checks directly.

27.   Farmers would receive the checks even if they changed crops in response to consumer demand or stopped growing food completely.

28.   He was raised by his mother, a strict disciplinarian and devout Pentecostal who received welfare checks.

29.   I have begun receiving checks in the mail from absolute strangers.

30.   In addition, many residents receive royalty checks from oil properties.