Airplane passengers without a REAL ID or passport could face an $18 fee under a new rule proposed by the Transportation Security Administration.

The Transportation Security Administration is proposing an $18 fee for travelers without a REAL ID to pass through airport checkpoints.

After two decades of trying to standardize security for ID cards, the feds set a hard deadline of May 7 to convert to a REAL ID or risk staying being denied access to airplanes. If you're wondering if you already made the switch – which you very well may have if you renewed your license in the past couple of years – there are two versions.

Under the "technology-enabled" program, a traveler would be required to pay a non-refundable fee of $18 to request an alternative identity verification. Once approved, the identity verification would be valid for 10 days.

TSA is proposing an $18 fee for travelers without proper ID, covering enhanced screening costs. Passports, military IDs and REAL ID licenses qualify.

You know the REAL ID that you need if you want to board a plane? The deadline to get one was supposed to be May 7. But just days before that, the Department of Homeland Security hit pause, again. Twenty years after Congress passed the REAL ID Act, too many ...

On Wednesday, May 7, the long-anticipated implementation of Real ID laws finally came into effect, and Americans now need a specific identification on their driver's license (or a passport) for air travel. The Real ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005 ...

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began requiring all travelers to have a REAL ID-compliant form of identification. While the agency has made exceptions for travelers who did not have compliant forms of identification,