I agree with MS Flowler on this. As our money is considered legal tender how can it be banned.

By the way, I think that pennies can be refused for any payment of over $10. This was to prevent people from showing up at the IRS with $150,000 worth of pennies.

However, if you wish to accept them you can.

AND..... Some years ago a friend of mine was told they had to go on Direct Deposit or they would not get paid. This decision was final.

Except that they were in Texas, and the law then was that a person could demand payment in any form they wished. This law was passed to prevent companies from paying with company script which was only good at the company store.

So they demanded payment in Gold. After the company lawyers looked into it the employee continued to receive a hard paycheck. Out of 65,000 employees this company had only two people, both in Texas, received a paycheck; the rest went on direct deposit.