What would a fully digital government payment system look like — and why does it matter? For citizens, government payments often mean waiting: waiting for tax refunds, waiting for stimulus checks, waiting for benefits to arrive. The delays for these government payment are largely the...
From the state taxing authorities to the state administrators who disburse federal funds to the local utility companies, state and local governments distribute trillions of disbursements every year to their citizens. But paper checks still abound, and the overwhelming majority of those citizens rate their...
The COVID-19 pandemic created a need for unprecedented government disbursements. The United States federal government alone distributed $931 billion in direct payments to approximately 165 million individuals in 2020 and 2021, far exceeding any previous stimulus payment program in recent history. An estimated 9 million...
Following the onset of the pandemic, the United States government had to respond quickly to disperse stimulus payments to about 90 million individuals in the first few months. At the same time, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was testing the limits of the relationship between...
October 04, 2022
Following the onset of the pandemic, the United States government had to respond quickly to disperse stimulus payments to about 90 million individuals in the first few months. At the same time, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was testing the limits of the relationship between government and commercial lenders through the Small Business Administration (SBA), […]
December 19, 2024
Payments infrastructure firm Episode Six (E6) has joined the Visa Ready for Government Disbursements program and teamed up with Secupay to deliver government disbursements in Germany. This partnership brings together Episode Six’s enterprise-grade card issuance and transaction processing technology, the Visa Ready for Government Disbursements program that facilitates government-to-citizen (G2C) payments, and Secupay’s regulated payment […]
