Mabels Cathouse is down with the debit. They say “No prob”.
Are these debit cards able to be used at Disneyland and Vegas casinos, the way the debit cards for public assistance people were used at such places????/
Gives new meaning to “paper or plastic”.
It makes no difference whether they cut checks, do auto-deposit, or give our a debit card. UI payments are CASH payments and can be spent on whatever the recipient wants to spend them on. This is not the same thing as debit cards issued as “food stamps,” welfare benefits, etc.
If California actually had some money in the bank, I suspect that these cards would be counterfeited by the Chinese.
Many states (Texas included) already have been doing this for some time. It’s the 21st Century.
There is a cost to the taxpayer for act of providing checks or debit cards. The state should start deducting fees from the beneficiaries to offset the cost of providing checks or debit cards.
If nothing else, this will encourage the beneficiaries to explore credit unions and sign up for direct deposit of their unemployment checks.
...as long as the state has the money, fine.
Interesting, especially in light of the recent announcement that the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing is printing even less paper money, which is very odd, as there is only enough paper money in the US to back about 5% of our daily retail needs. And the vast amount of what they print is $1 bills, with proportionally fewer higher denomination bills.
And that a large portion of our $100 bills are sent overseas. So even if they wanted to, they could not print $500 or $1000 bills, for the simple reason that nobody could make change for them.
This could turn very bad, very fast, if there are any problems at all with our electronic based money. Say, if the credit card companies could no longer sell bonds to underwrite their card holder debt.
Within a month or so, tens of millions of Americans would no longer be able to pay their rent or buy food.
card cloning,
massive data fraud,
fake applicants,
ringing up items that were never bought,
big brother tracking/approving healthy sanctioned food.
If you don’t spend your entire monthy payout that month, does the surplus sit in a government controlled account and accrue interest?
I would think there is a tremendous permanence to receiving a debit card versus a check...
So these poor people are at a disadvantage at election time because they are too stupid to aquire some form of picture ID but they are smart enough to apply for and use an ATM card? How do they apply with no photo ID?
Kill motor voter, require picture ID to vote.
I’m still laughing at the ‘Newspeak’ government title, ‘Employment Development Department’. HA! George Orwell anyone?