{"id":14874,"date":"2014-02-16T04:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=14874"},"modified":"2014-02-16T05:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T04:15:43","slug":"banks-in-electronic-benefits-delivery-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/banks-in-electronic-benefits-delivery-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks in Electronic Benefits Delivery Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Electronic benefits delivery is such a rewarding business that banks seem to fear only two things: policy changes and bad publicity. The publicity problems of EBT programs became obvious over the last three months of 2103 when three major EBT system failure scandals erupted. The threat of policy change is perhaps less visible. New regulations could take distribution of these benefits out of the hands of for-profit banks, limit the fees they are able to collect, or mandate a switch from EBT cards to different kinds of electronic funds transfer with fewer opportunities for generating revenue, such as direct deposit. But banks have nothing to fear in the new Agricultural Act; it\u2019s only good news for the finance sector. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Banks-in-the-Benefits-Business.pdf\">Banks in the Benefits Business<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/banks-in-electronic-benefits-delivery-business\/banks-profit-on-food-stamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14882\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14882\" alt=\"Banks Profit on Food Stamps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Banks-Profit-on-Food-Stamps.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic benefits delivery is such a rewarding business that banks seem to fear only two things: policy changes and bad publicity. The publicity problems of EBT programs became obvious over the last three months of 2103 when three major EBT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/banks-in-electronic-benefits-delivery-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14883,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions\/14883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}