Pictured: Donald Trump's name on $1,200 relief checks is unveiled by the Secret Service - who say it's a 'security measure' to stop forgers

The U.S. Secret Service said that adding Donald Trump's name to coronavirus relief checks was a security measure as it released an image of an example check Monday.

The image was released, it said, as a way to help Americans identify any counterfeits.

USSS also claimed in releasing the image that the president's name is included on the checks to act as a 'genuine security feature.'

It cited other security measures as watermarks and microprinting on the check.

American adults are now receiving direct deposit payments and physical checks for $1,200, and $500 per child, as a measure included as part of the CARES Act signed into law by the president at the end of March.

The United States Secret Services released an image of an example check Americans will receive for coronavirus relief, which includes President Donald Trump's name. They say his name on the check is a 'genuine security feature'

The checks come as a record number of Americans filed for unemployment in the last month after losing their jobs or being furloughed in the midst of the coronavirus crisis – more than 22 million Americans have applied for benefits

Reports emerged that the checks were being delayed because Trump wanted his named printed on them – but a Treasury spokeswoman said printing the president's names on the checks would not delay their delivery

The checks are meant to help Americans making $95,000 or less to deal with the economic and financial fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, which has led to record-breaking unemployment levels with more than 22 million Americans out of work.

Reports emerged last week that the funds were being delayed because the president wanted his name on the checks.

While senior Internal Revenue Service officials told The Washington Post that they believed the addition of Trump's name could slow the printing of the checks, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department said that would not cause a delay in delivery.

'Economic Impact Payment checks are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned – there is absolutely no delay whatsoever,' a Treasury spokeswoman said in a statement to USA Today last week.

'In fact, we expect the first checks to be in the mail early next week which is well in advance of when the first checks went out in 2008 and well in advance of initial estimates,' she continued. 

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also claimed Sunday that it was his idea to have Trump's name included on the $1,200 payments passed in the CARES Act. 'That was my idea. He is the president, and I think it's terrific symbol to the American public,' Mnuchin said

Despite reports of Trump's insistence on his name being included on the checks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed Sunday that it was all his idea. 

'We did put the president's name on the check - that was my idea,' Mnuchin said.

'He is the president, and I think it's terrific symbol to the American public,' he told CNN anchor Jake Tapper in an interview.

Democrats have proposed the next CARES Act include a measure that sends more checks to Americans, and even have floated the idea of the checks being recurring until lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have lifted.

Mnuchin, a former Democrat and current Trump administration official, has been leading the efforts of bipartisan negotiations between the White House and Democratic and Republican lawmakers in coronavirus relief and stimulus legislation.