Summary
Cash-strapped students are to be offered a new kind of lifeline pay-as-you-go plastic. It looks just like a credit or debit card and uses the MasterCard payments system, but is prepaid and good only for the amount loaded on to it.
Like pay-as-you-go phone cards, they can be topped up, with or without the card, at shops and post offices. Advanced Payment Solutions, the main British cash-card provider, believes that this could prove attractive to parents with children studying far from home. APS charges a joining fee of Pounds 9.95 and a monthly charge of Pounds 4.95. Chief executive Rich Wagner says that because they use the MasterCard system, the cards allow people who do not have bank accounts to budget better by buying goods and services cheaper over the internet.See the full content of this document
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