The government checks come at the beginning of the month.

The traffic was moving about the speed of a government check.

You can't just order something on your own and have a government check issued to pay for it.

How far do you think your government check will go without me bringing home my salary?

And, like a lot of them, it is the only income they have outside of a government check.

Retirees could run a tab and cash their government checks.

Most people here either earn their living by working with their hands or exist on some kind of government check.

Some subsisted on government checks; others worked occasionally or full time.

Wednesday happened to be the first of the month, when the elderly and the disabled receive their government checks.

The public sector is paid in Government checks, which have become a quasi-currency.