Sentence examples for giro cheque from inspiring English sources
Income Support, Family Credit and (most of) Housing Benefit, at the time, were paid directly into a bank account or, for those without an account, by mailing a "giro" cheque that could be cashed at Post Offices.
Just a few days before his murder, he was brought to the job centre to sign on and cash his giro cheque.
Difficult childhood, pseudo-spiritual conversion through pop music, fully funded creative years at university, giro cheques and crap jobs, managers taking a risk – and ta-dah!
An estimated 250,000 benefit recipients – mostly people on jobseeker's allowance but also including pensioners or those on disability payments – still cash in their "green giro" cheques at Post Office counters rather than have them paid directly into a bank account.
A quarter of a million benefit recipients, including pensioners and those on disability allowances, will have to cash in their giro cheques at off-licences and petrol stations under government plans.
Pension and benefit payments face disruption after what is being described as the biggest computer crash in government history left as many as 80,000 civil servants staring at blank screens and reverting to writing out giro cheques by hand in the latest blow to a hi-tech Whitehall revolution.
WHEN is a cheque not a cheque?
The Giro begins Saturday.
