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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Walmart Wants To Cash Your Tax Refund Check [Watch (HLS stream): Walmart Wants To Cash Your Tax Refund Check](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TvDk0Pz9.m3u8) (1:56)  _Published 2015-01-21. Walmart’s program is called Direct2Cash and it allows customers to receive their income tax refund from Walmart instead of cashing a check or waiting for it in the mail._ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:47 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Airlines Will Now Have to Give Automatic Cash Refunds for Canceled and Delayed Flights](/video/W72gg66h/) ### Airlines Will Now Have to Give Automatic Cash Refunds for Canceled and Delayed Flights [Preventing Tax-Refund Fraud](/video/S3TOm3eJ/) ### Preventing Tax-Refund Fraud [Walmart's Smartphone Trade-In Program](/video/Ucjs8vCc/) ### Walmart's Smartphone Trade-In Program --- ## Transcript It's the stimulus package to bail you out of that holiday spending debt, income tax refund season is upon us, and Walmart is making a power play to bring in more customers. The program is called Direct 2 Cash, and it allows customers to receive their income tax refund from Walmart, instead of cashing a check or waiting for it in the mail. The program is open to those expecting up to $ 7, 500. Here's how it works, customers who decide to use the program go to one of 25, 000 tax preparers around the country. Your H and R Blocks, Jackson Hewitt's, etcetera, then they file your taxes. Then the tax preparer sends a confirmation code to your email. Customers bring the email and an ID to Wal Mart, which then pays you in cash. The fee for those without a checking account and looking to cash the refund check, can be extremely high. More than 2 % of the total. The Walmart program only charges a $ 7 fee. But the potential catch of the new program is paying the tax preparer, which on average, costs about $ 246 according to the national. society of accountants if you make less than $ 53 thousand a year you can get this service for free Wal- Mart calls this program a win- win offering customers an efficient and cheaper way to get their money and putting more customers in the tax preparer offices and Wal- Mart aisles Money quotes Daniel Eckert the senior vice president for Wal- Mart services. It's always a good thing to have customers in our stores who have jingles in their wallets and their pockets. Walmart's directed cash program is just the latest venture for America's largest retail giant, which has struggled with growth as of late. It's seen seven straight quarters without sales growth in 2013 and '14. Say goodbye to big banks and their big fees. Back in September, Walmart announced Go Bank. New checking account service for Walmart customers that doesn't charge overdraft fees. Then, in October Walmart plunged head first into healthcare by putting health insurance agents in more than half its U. S. stores to try to help customers sign- up. The Direct to cash program began Tuesday and will run through tax season. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Walmart Wants To Cash Your Tax Refund Check","description":"Walmart’s program is called Direct2Cash and it allows customers to receive their income tax refund from Walmart instead of cashing a check or waiting for it in the mail.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TvDk0Pz9/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-21T19:15:46.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TvDk0Pz9.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/TvDk0Pz9/","duration":"PT1M56S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/TvDk0Pz9/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```