This really should be government policy in the U.K. as well. The government mails out hundreds of thousands of cheques every month and I’m sure plenty — if not the majority — of these go to people who have a bank account anyway, who don’t have a bank account but should get one and stop wasting taxpayers’ money, or who don’t have a bank account and don’t need one but should get a prepaid card instead (if they weren’t so expensive here) and stop wasting taxpayers’ money. Given the significant savings, perhaps the government should even go down the BT route and give people more benefit if they are paid by direct debit, sharing the cost savings with the customers, so to speak?

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