When it comes to your money, safety and security are paramount. With Direct Deposit, your employer or the government deposits money straight into your account at the same time each month giving you more control over your money.

Direct Deposit helps ease your mind with these benefits:

• There are no checks to be lost or stolen.
• It eliminates the risk of forged signatures and helps protect you from identity theft.
• Payments reach your account the day the check is issued -- even if you are out of town, sick or unable to get to your financial institution.
• It can save you trips to the bank and help you avoid long lines at tellers or ATMs.
• Direct deposit can help you avoid bouncing checks because the deposit is direct and on time.

Click here to print the Direct Deposit form, and then give the form to your employer. 

Southwest Heritage Credit Union
Routing Number:  316386735

If you currently receive social security or disability payments, you can visit your local Social Security office to set up direct deposit for those benefits as well.

Did you know that switching from paper checks to Direct Deposit also benefits the environment? By switching to Direct Deposit, an individual employee, paid every two weeks, can:

• Save a pound of paper per year
• Avoid the release of 4 gallons of wastewater into the environment
• Avoid the release of 1 pound of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
• This amount of greenhouse gases is the equivalent of:
• 4 miles not driven in your car
• ½ square foot of forest preserved

Source: payitgreen.org