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Mastercard offers a variety of public sector solutions that can be implemented at any scale so governments can better serve their citizens and employees. Below are just a few examples of the types of solutions we offer.

Social Benefits

  • Benefits (education/scholarship, food subsidy, grants, loans, migrant workers, health, insurance, unemployment, other)
  • Pension
  • Tax Refunds
  • Disaster Relief

Government Payroll

  • Wages
  • Pensions
  • Other

Boosting Efficiency with Electronic Payments

The shift to electronic payments ensures social benefits are delivered as expected, improving transparency, reducing costs, and maximizing national ID programs to expand financial inclusion. Explore the benefits.

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Disbursements

The advantages of electronically disbursed social benefits include:

Reach

Distributing cards and implementing mobile solutions maximizes reach to citizens and minimizes effort on the part of the recipient

Security/Validation

Providing strong authentication and eligibility validation, including biometrics, ensures that the right people benefit from social spending and that funds are used as intended

Cost Efficiency

Efficiencies are gained by decreasing the time and effort involved with cash and check processing, as well as curtailing leakage, processing errors and eliminating the logistics of transporting cash

Convenience

Funds are immediately available, promoting faster local circulation and saving citizens the need to travel or queue to receive funds

Inclusion

Enabling the unbanked and underserved to enjoy better management of spending and the opportunity to save for the future

Economic Growth

Growth in local and remote economies through improved payment flow, reduced time and travel costs to get funds, reduced theft, more efficient local economic activity and increased local investment

Identification Programs

Offering multiple functions on a single card maximizes efficiency, optimizes usage and reduces management for both government and citizens. Multi-function cards offer:

Visibility

Understanding who and where citizens are located is critical to effectively serving them and driving social progress

Reach

Increasing financial inclusion among citizens who are able to receive their social payments electronically enables governments to gain a better understanding of the population 

Efficiency

Combining National ID programs with electronic payment functionality creates cost savings to help fund ID programs, which can be leveraged for other social benefit programs

Economic Development

Providing a universal, secure means of identification for all citizens generates ancillary cost savings for the private sector and accelerates economic growth