Welfare Debit Cards Instead Of Cheques.

[Niflmir]

Cheques are dated inventions that should have been dropped a decade before the chip was put on debit cards.

If your landlord gives you a voided cheque, you can take the transit information from the bottom of it and set up a wire transfer. For unknown reasons, Canadian banks will charge you $14 for saving them the trouble of handling the cheque. Probably has to do with the ludicrous notion of upselling people on a chequing account.

In Europe, people will freely give their account number to one another, because there are actual security measures protecting the account (hiding your account number is not security). I was wiring money from a German bank account into the account my my landlord in the Netherlands and not paying a cent for it, now I have an account in the Netherlands and I still do not pay a cent to transfer the money.

Don't have internet? Every bank in the Netherlands has a computer in the branch for you to do your online banking free of charge.

 

[jwmcq625]

Before we go there, how about we require mandatory drug-testing in order to receive welfare payments? We have numerous occupations in this country that requires employees to submit to random drug-testing just to keep their jobs, so why should these drug-free employees have to subsidize those who would rather just get high, instead of actually getting a job and contributing to society, instead of just taking from it?

Maybe it's time that those on welfare are made accountable for the money they recieve. First off, their rent payments should be directed directly to their landlords to insure they have a roof over their heads, instead of spending on their addiction of choice. Anyone of working age who is deemed to be disabled and cannot work should have to attend an independent, government paid physician to determine that they in fact have a condition that makes them unemployable. If tehy are in fact deemed as unemployable, then so be it, but for those taht will ultimately be deemed to be playing a game, should be on their own, and required to get a job, and support themselves.

 

[Chev]

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I suspect there are probably more government cheques of every level/type being direct deposited than being mailed. (As far as Canada Post doing a crash & burn, personally I’m not concerned, I work at an outlet and CPC gives us a daily sales target, we meet or exceed every day, mostly through special deliveries and parcel mailings).
Ron’s comment: “…updates needed would be POS terminals installed’… food delivery drivers, AMA drivers, locksmiths, etc. have debit/credit machines; I’d be surprised if cabbies don’t. Bus/LRT terminals probably do too. (like parking lot meter or gas pumps? Pay in advance).
Landlords/property management companies; if they take debit or not?? Tenants with debit card, go get a money order. Money orders don’t ‘bounce’ either. We go through at least 150 money orders every month for tenants rent payments. Property management companies also run walk-ups.
Says Liberalman “ Landlords do take debit. Debit cards makes sure the money is being spent on what it was given for.”
How do debit cards make sure the money is spent on what it was given for???