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Have questions about increasing efficiency while promoting financial inclusion?
As governments look to increase efficiency, maximize payment security and reduce fraud, they need a partner who listens to their needs.
With 50 years of industry leadership and a track record of payment innovations, Mastercard has implemented government solutions that reduce costs, increase transparency and promote financial inclusion.
Here are just a few of the programs we support:
- Payroll (salary, pension, workers compensation)
- Remittances
- Disaster relief
- Procurement (purchasing, travel, fleet)
- Bill payment
- Campus card
- Unclaimed property, jury duty payments and tax refunds
- National and municipal ID
- Government receipts (taxes, fines, fees, tourism)
- Transit (train, bus, parking, car/taxi, bicycle)
- Social benefits (education/scholarship, grants, loans, social assistance, insurance, employment insurance, disability, other)