Methods and systems for managing government issued entitlements

A system for designating accounts for funds from a check to be deposited, the system comprising:

• an account processing center that is configured to receive a government entitlement check from a government entity, wherein the check includes an identifier, and is further configured to access a customer database to compare the identifier with customer information in the database to determine that funds from the check have been designated to be divided into sub-amounts and deposited into a plurality of accounts, each of the plurality of accounts having an account type and an associated expenditure designation, and to automatically deposit into at least one of the plurality of accounts at least a portion of the funds;
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• an account reporter configured to track deposited fund totals for each account type, and is further configured to generate a report of a total amount deposited from the check for each type of associated expenditure designation and each account type.