{"id":3421,"date":"2009-02-10T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:26:18","slug":"pension-refund-check-in-yen-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/10\/pension-refund-check-in-yen-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension refund check in yen &#8211; Advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The below question was posted to the JETAA DC email list:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just returned in August of &#8217;08 and filed for a pension refund around\u00a0 October. Today I got a check in the mail from the social insurance\u00a0 department of Japan! Except the check is in yen.<\/p>\n<p>Have other people been\u00a0 confronted with this situation? Is the best course of action to cash\u00a0 the check into dollars and then deposit it? Should I deposit it via my bank and allow them to take out commission and give me a crappy exchange rate? Should I bring it to American Express and get it transferred to traveler&#8217;s or cashier&#8217;s checks? Any other advice?<\/p>\n<p><em>What would you do?\u00a0 Please post your comments, suggestions and advice below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below question was posted to the JETAA DC email list: I just returned in August of &#8217;08 and filed for a pension refund around\u00a0 October. Today I got a check in the mail from the social insurance\u00a0 department of Japan! Except the check is in yen. Have other people been\u00a0 confronted with this situation? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}