States with the highest numbers of paper checks include California, New York, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. There may be a little wiggle room, but Social Security would like people to willingly give up those paper checks.
Remember that the new PSAT is scored between 320 and 1520, which is a composite of the Math section and the Reading and Writing sections together. To score in the 70th percentile or above, you want to aim for at least a 490 in Reading and Writing and a 500 in Math (or a composite of 990).
Updated September 8, 2015, with National Merit semifinalist cutoff scores by state, class of 2016. The scores will apply to high school juniors who took the PSAT in October 2014.Note: The average 2014 National Merit Scholarsâ SAT critical reading score was 751, and the average mathematics score was 746; the average writing skills score was 737.