The elderly and writing of checks

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. Do they not trust themselves with cards or cash?

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I worked at a bank for years. The elderly think that debit cards are really credit cards, no matter how many times you explain it to them.

I especially like when they take the time to write it in the ledger and balance as well. Might as well do it all at once right?

Apparently you've never worked in a major market area of the United States.

They’re just doing what they’ve always done. Certain older people being “behind the times” is not a surprise. Having said that yes it’s ridiculous, but hard to blame them.

They're probably writing those checks for google play cards to give to an online scammer

You're just jealous that they know how to write in cursive.

My 88 year old mother has an IRA. By law, she must make a minimum withdrawal from it each year.
This year I finally set her up online accounts both of the IRA and a "regular" account.
She let me do the withdrawal online and I told her I would transfer the IRA withdrawal to her regular account.
She said "No, mail me a check for it". I said "Ok'.
Week later she gets the check.
Then she tells me she wants to deposit the check in that new regular account.

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Some day something will replace debit cards and you'll be a stick in the mud for not embracing it.

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yep, eeewwww, I don't want to get micro chipped! it will mess up my tattoos!

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I will not get behind them at any register. Do they not trust themselves with cards or cash?

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Then don't. And when your parents are in assisted living, don't visit them.