Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

DALLAS — Grab a pen and paper so I can give you my bank account number and the routing number. I’ll also furnish my debit card number, because what could possibly go wrong? That is how I feel when a ...

Your account number is located at the bottom of a check — it’s the second set of numbers, between the nine-digit routing number and the check number. The routing number comes first — it’s the ...

HOUSTON – Peer-to-peer payment apps like Zelle, Venmo and the Cash App are very popular, even more so during the pandemic because you can exchange money without ever handling cash and coins. But if ...

Congress has agreed to a roughly $900 billion economic relief package that includes a second round of stimulus payments. The second stimulus payment will be: A onetime stimulus payment of $600 for ...

As online scams continue to thrive amid the pandemic, an old hoax about Social Security cards containing account and routing numbers recently resurfaced on social media. A May 20 Instagram post with ...