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Re:What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? by loeber on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:29PM (#20822581)
That's not actually correct. By giving an external person a check, you give them the ABILITY to PULL funds from you. It looks like a push, but it's actually not.

https://www.bankrate.com/financing/banking/writing-checks-in...

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Re:What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? by bsder on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:01PM (#20822883)
Knuth had to quit giving out real checks (which nobody actually ever cashed, anyway) for exactly this reason.
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Re:What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? by emiliobumachar on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:27PM (#20824151)
They probably meant a fire-and-forget method to pay untrusted parties without giving them the ability to charge more than agreed.

Chargebacks are a thing, but they require constant vigilance and the occasional bureaucratic task.

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Re:What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? by TylerE on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:42PM (#20824289)
Checks have substantially less security there. Not more - and even if/when it gets fixed the money comes out immediately.
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Re:What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? by mindslight on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:57PM (#20822842)
More importantly you're giving them the authorization.

Everyone already has the basic ability to pull funds from arbitrary checking accounts. heh.

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