Efforts to change the law have failed in Congress, partly because of concerns by gun-rights advocates that background checks delay transactions.
As a result, the extension of unemployment benefits will have to wait at least a week, and some Americans relying on jobless pay could see their checks delayed.
In recent years a gridlocked Washington has seemed to need the threat of drop-dead deadlines and potentially grave consequences — workers laid off, parks and monuments closing, services disappearing overnight, federal benefit checks delayed — to get anything done.
– Online porn age checks delayed.
Then the check-reading machines won't be able to read the check, delaying the processing time.
Air travel has become increasingly annoying and enervating: delayed flights, more restrictive rules on the size of carry-ons (anything bigger than a wallet may force a gate check), delayed or lost luggage, long check-in lines, etc.
Or do you prefer driving through traffic jams to an airport, security checks, delays and American air roulette with the under-staffed, over-worked, technologically handicapped air-traffic control system we now have?
Payroll checks were delayed, workers laid off and services cut back, Ms. Nell said.
Even after the settlement in January, the checks were delayed for weeks.
The executive said that the bank intended to waive all fees and possibly advance customers money interest-free if their government checks were delayed.
