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Business News/ Money / Calculators/  Product crack: State Bank of India Smart Payout Card
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Product crack: State Bank of India Smart Payout Card

It is a prepaid card that individuals can use to pay their unbanked household staff.

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What is it?

It is a prepaid card that individuals can use to pay their unbanked household staff or to pay pocket money or monthly expense to your children and companies can use to pay their low-income staff. You can load money on this card before handing it over to your staff or children, who can then use it at multiple authorized locations, for online purchases and cash withdrawals at automated teller machines (ATMs).

Who can buy: The card is available to individuals as well as companies having a KYC-compliant account at State Bank of India.

What are the charges?

You will have to pay an issuance fee of 102 and every time, you put more money in it, you pay 10. In case you lose the card or if it gets damaged, the replacement card will cost you another 102. If you use the card at an SBI ATM, you won’t be charged anything. However, if you use the card at any other bank’s ATMs, you will have to pay 20 for every financial transaction and 10 for every non-financial transaction.

What you get

The validity of the card is 10 years. The minimum you can load is 100. The reload limit is 10,000 with a monthly ceiling of 25,000. The person to whom the card is issued can hold only one card. The person getting the card issued from his account can have a maximum of three cards issued. There is no limit for companies, subject to one card per employee.

What you don’t get

You don’t earn any interest on the money that has been deposited in this account. With an intention of financial inclusion, the card allows relaxed KYC for the dependants or employees in case of a corporate entity. Though you can check your balance amount at https://prepaid.onlinesbi.com, you can’t use the Internet banking facility for this card. Current account holders can’t get the prepaid card.

Mint Money take

The objective of the card is to provide banking facility to unbanked people. Targeting individuals who receive income in cash, this card could work well for contract workers and those who get money in cash like your domestic help, taxi drivers, small vendors, among others. Companies can transfer payments to workers through such cards even if they do not have a bank account. As far as security features are concerned, the bank has put safeguards in place against any possible misuse.

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Published: 06 May 2013, 07:48 PM IST
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