![]() ![]() Last day to choose one of the options below for any money left on your card: Last day to activate and use your card as you normally do to make payments, cash withdrawals, and purchases. Last day to request and be issued a replacement card, if your card is lost, stolen, expired, or scheduled to expire before March 31. Important Dates for Your Current Bank of America Debit Card Date Visit Help Fight Fraud for tips on how to avoid scams. EDD text messages only link to websites that include “edd.ca.gov”. Text messages asking you to activate a debit card by selecting a link are scams. We will never request your personal information by text message, email, or on social media. Note: If you have received all of your benefits, or have returned to work and are no longer receiving benefits by January 15, you will not receive a new card. If you don’t receive your card, contact Money Network at 1-80. It will be in a plain, white, letter-sized envelope from the Employment Development Department with an Omaha, Nebraska (NE) return address. For example, if you qualified for a payment on January 15, allow until February 1 to receive that new Money Network Card. Your new Money Network Card should arrive in 14 business days. We’ll then mail you a new Money Network Card (with no money on it yet) for future benefit payments. Your next payment will issue to your Bank of America prepaid debit card. If You’re Receiving Payments by Debit Card After January 15, 2024: For more information, watch The EDD is Transitioning to New Debit Cards (YouTube). Instead, they will be issued to a new Money Network prepaid debit card. ![]() If you have a Bank of America debit card for your EDD benefits, it will only be active until April 15, 2024.īeginning February 15, 2024, benefits will no longer be issued to a Bank of America debit card. The card will be deactivated to prevent anyone from using it, and a new replacement card will be sent to you.We are changing the bank we use to issue your debit cards. For help, you can call customer service at 1-80. The good news is if you did discard or lose yours, the government says it can be replaced. So look for the envelope that comes in the mail from “Money Network Cardholder Services.” There has been very little publicity about these cards, but they were mailed out last month and arrived all over town. So most would think as I did that mail sent by a largely unknown cardholder services is junk mail. Many people would expect such a payment to arrive as a government check or sent by direct deposit into their bank account. It turns out that some four million Americans will receive a COVID 19 stimulus check in the form of a prepaid debit card or a check. When I registered online, I learned the card contained several hundred dollars – found money, which I almost had thrown away! I was told I can use my EIP card to buy groceries at stores, make purchases online, get cash from an ATM, or simply transfer the funds to my bank account. I quickly rescued the debit card from the scrap heap, and read the instructions again. Then one day last week came another envelope, this from the US Treasury Department, and an enclosed letter with that scribbled signature that the man who sits in the White House uses, telling me he would send me a card with some money on it to help get through this current fiscal crisis. And there it sat, unattended but not thrown away, for about two weeks. ![]() Still skeptical, I left it in a pile of other “get around-to-it” mail and message items that relentlessly pile up on the dining room table. Now that you’ve received your Card, here’s how to activate and start using it.” ![]() The EIP Card is sponsored by the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service as part of the US Debit Card Program. The attached flyer said the card was my own personal “EIP” – my Economic Impact Payment Card – “containing the money you are receiving as a result of the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security act (CARES Act). For one thing, most of the junk mailings involve credit cards, but this was a “debit” card, and “debit” in the name usually means there’s money sitting on the card. My first impulse was to throw it away, but something about it suggested that I should hang onto it and do some checking. On the back was the logo of something I did not recognize, the logo of “MetaBank” from the Money Network. I usually pitch ‘em, but this time I opened it and found inside a Visa debit card in my name and a 16-digit account number. It looked like one of the typical junk credit card offers that come in the mail with some frequency. A piece of mail addressed to me that arrived a couple of weeks ago bore a return address from something called the “Money Network Cardholder Services.” ![]()
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