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Stimulus Check Visa Debit Cards Being Mailed To 8 Million Households

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Roughly 8 million stimulus check Visa debit cards are being mailed to households this week, the U.S. The Economic Impact Payment (EIP) cards were issued by MetaBank, N.A. Millions of payments have already been made via direct deposit and paper checks, with the goal of quickly delivering assistance.

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Using Debit Cards To Bridge The Stimulus Accessibility Gap

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Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Consumers today are especially likely to use their debit cards for their eCommerce purchases or to make in-store purchases with mobile wallets, and card-not-present (CNP) transactions represented 43.1

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Square Cash App Launches Direct Deposits

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Square has just launched the ability for ACH direct deposits, allowing users to put their paychecks and other deposits directly into their Cash app balance. Cash App now supports direct deposits for your paychecks. The company made the announcement on Twitter , writing “PAYDAY!

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DailyPay Rebrands Its Card, Adding New Merchant Cash Back Offers

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The DailyPay Visa® Prepaid Card will remain a general purpose reloadable (GPR) card with an app that allows users to transfer a portion of their earned wages to the card in real time*, and with no fee** if the user has updated their direct deposit to the card. Other fees and limits apply.

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Problems Abound With Stimulus Debit Cards

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Americans continue to face problems with accessing stimulus debit cards, with some people receiving cards they can’t use due to the wrong names being printed on them. Although the card contains both Barton and his wife’s stimulus payments, because the name is wrong, he is unable to access any of the money right now.

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PayPal Launch PayPal Everywhere

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” In addition, customers can add their PayPal Debit Card to Apple Wallet in just a few steps and use it with Apple Pay, enabling even more ways to pay. A physical debit card can be requested at no cost.

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Experts Tell Congress It?s Time To Create A ?Digital Dollar?

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Trillions of dollars in federal COVID-19 stimulus payments are being disbursed through paper checks, prepaid debit cards and direct deposit