Laid-off workers to get debit cards - Unemployment pay takes different form

By Lesley Stedman Weidenbener
The Courier-Journal

INDIANAPOLIS -- Laid-off Hoosiers soon will begin getting their unemployment payments as debit cards rather than checks.

The Indiana Department of Workforce Development announced yesterday that it plans to hire a company to issue MasterCard- or Visa-branded debit cards -- which are used like credit cards except they withdraw money from an account -- to Hoosiers who qualify for unemployment benefits.

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