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While many predicted doom for checkbooks by 2020, it seems they were wrong. The Federal Reserve Payments Study done in 2016 showed a much slower decline in the use of checks than had been anticipated, with check payments in the late 2000s undergoing a slower decline than was the case in the early 2000s.