Claim: Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.
Fact-check: Barack Obama said Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan;Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-07-13T00:00:00