When someone writes you a check, you can deposit it in your account or cash it at the bank to get the money. Before you hand the check over to the bank, you’ll need to endorse it. That means you sign ...

According to the latest figures from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., almost 6 million U.S. households were “unbanked” as of 2023. That means that no one in the household has a checking or savings ...

Nowadays it seems like people carry less cash around with them. Or at least my friends and I rarely carry cash and tend to default to using our debit cards, credit cards or write checks when we need ...

Checks aren’t as common today as they once were, but they’re still in use. If someone gives you one, you should know how to endorse it so you can: Done correctly, endorsements make using checks easy.