Go Direct Month Tool Kit

Join us for the final Go Direct Month in January, which will be filled with a flurry of media outreach and partner activity across the country. The campaign needs your help more than ever in the final months before March 1, 2013,  to ensure all federal benefit check recipients switch to electronic payments before the deadline and ensure they experience a smooth transition to electronic payments.

Below are tools you can download to help your community members take action today!

  • Program Overview – Learn more about the electronic federal benefit payments requirement and find easy ways to urge community members to make the switch.
  • 100-Day Out Checklist – A checklist that features a variety of activities you can do from now until the deadline to help people make the switch.
  • External Newsletter Copy – Publish an article for your community members.
  • Internal Newsletter Copy – Publish an article for your affiliates, chapters or staff.
  • E-Blast Copy – Send this informative email to your affiliates and chapters and urge them to get involved in the Go Direct® campaign.
  • PowerPoint – Add these basic slides to your current presentations to senior citizens, veterans, people with disabilities and others who get federal benefit payments.
  • Talking Points – Include these messages in your speaking engagements.
  • News Briefs – Share these short messages in your newsletter or on your website.
  • Social Media Tips – Post these simple messages to your social media sites.
  • Statement messages – Add this text to statements or other mailings you send to the people you serve.
  • Countdown Clock Widget – Add to your website or other web-based communications.
  • Posters and Fliers – Order free materials to distribute in your lobby or at events.