31.   If you still have the postmarked envelope in which the check was sent, keep it with your tax records.

32.   In some cases, officials say the company simply switched customers without even sending a check first.

33.   In the United States, it is widely accepted to send a check to a favorite charity that spreads a certain ideology.

34.   In this case, officials said, the clerks simply told the computer that the applicants had won such a judgment, and checks were sent out to them.

35.   Instead, the IRS said, it would send paper checks to individual taxpayers.

36.   Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad sent his check, which, like all dues, went to charity.

37.   It sent the check back for verification, saying the endorsement was too faint to read.

38.   It sent reimbursement checks, then told her not to cash them.

39.   It would also prevent states from sending welfare checks to teenage mothers who set up independent households.

40.   Keep sending those checks.