I never received a check, a check was sent directly to the IRA brokerage account, but the account number specified on the check was the Roth IRA account.
I entered the info online, but it was very convoluted, and the custodian had very strange rules. They said that Roth transfers had to be entered first, which is what I did, I entered the info to transfer my Roth 401k to my Roth IRA.
Once I finished that, I entered my traditional IRA account number to transfer the traditional 401k account. However, as I mentioned, I think they have a bug in their system, first, because they probably don't have a lot of account transfers, second, because they didn't offer the Roth 401k until much later, those who did close out their 401ks to move them to IRAs probably just had one type or the other, not both, like I had.
I truly believe they did not test their system adequately to check how a transfer of both types of accounts could be transferred in a single session.
But, to go back to your question, No, I didn't receive a check, the 401k custodian wrote and sent the paper check for the traditional transfer to the Roth IRA account.
