Propel, a FinTech that builds technology to help lower-income Americans manage their finances, launched a new app today (July 14) that combines digital banking with government benefits management. The new app, called Providers, integrates Propel’s Fresh EBT app and includes a Mastercard debit account, called...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said there have been so many unemployment claims that the state’s entire system – including the website and phones – buckled under the volume, the governor said during his daily COVID-19 briefing in Buffalo on Tuesday (April 21). “The bad...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has asked the Treasury Department to boost fraud protection in the Direct Express prepaid program after hundreds of federal benefits recipients were victims of fraud. Direct Express, which allows Americans without bank accounts to access their federal benefit payments via prepaid...
Following recent cases of fraud, Comerica Bank has reportedly closed part of its federal benefits prepaid card program called Cardless Benefit Access Service. To the drain accounts of federal beneficiaries, scamsters have allegedly taken advantage of security flaws in the bank’s service that were part...
July 20, 2023
Walmart is continuing its efforts to court customers who receive government assistance. The retail giant on Thursday (July 20) announced the debut of its Walmart+ Assist program, which offers customers on government assistance half off a monthly or yearly Walmart+ paid membership plan. “Walmart+ Assist was designed to do exactly what’s in the name: assist those who need […]
July 14, 2021
Propel, a FinTech that builds technology to help lower-income Americans manage their finances, launched a new app today (July 14) that combines digital banking with government benefits management. The new...
April 21, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said there have been so many unemployment claims that the state’s entire system – including the website and phones – buckled under the volume, the...
January 11, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has asked the Treasury Department to boost fraud protection in the Direct Express prepaid program after hundreds of federal benefits recipients were victims of fraud. Direct...
