Social Security benefits

arting in May, does anyone use the social security benefits will only be able to receive them electronically. 10 million people who still receive welfare checks by mail - about one in every seven recipients - about two years to switch to direct deposit.

Here are some details for the course:

U.S. Treasury will complete transition effective May 1. Welfare recipients are now receiving checks need to switch to direct deposit by March 1, 2013. More info at www.ssa.gov, where you can also watch the video promoting the switch, which show the actor George Takei and Patty Duke. Who wants to switch can do so at www.godirect.org.

It's safer and more reliable to receive payments this way. "You do not have to worry about your check is lost or stolen and your money will be available immediately on the date of payment," says Michael Astrue, commissioner of Social Security. "There is no need to wait for mail to arrive."

Government eventually save $ 120 million a year by switching from paper checks to electronic payments, totaling $ 1 billion saved over the next 10 years. Environmental savings will also be a result of relocation to save 12 million pounds of paper in the first five years alone.