"My goal, one that's been talked about for many years, is to get out of the check-payment business, " said Richard Gregg, Treasury's Fiscal Assistant Secretary and one of the officials overseeing the program.
"It becomes a challenge because we live in Peter Pan houses, designed for people who never grow old, " said Susan Bosak, a social scientist who is overseeing a program to boost intergenerational engagement in Tulsa, Okla.