Comments on: Welfare dependence http://tomorrowstransactions.com/2012/12/welfare-dependence/ Thought leadership from Consult Hyperion Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:21:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: James Cranfieldhttp://tomorrowstransactions.com/2012/12/welfare-dependence/#comment-256 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:57:30 +0000 http://ec2-54-201-142-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/2012/12/welfare-dependence/#comment-256 Agree. Using MCC would be too broad to target specific spend, and in any case people would find ways around it, even if ATMs were blocked.

Cash back?
Asking someone else to buy their “banned items”?
P2P payments?
Fudning PayPal account?
Barter?

Money is liquid and will tend to find it´s way to the bearer´s target, right or wrong.

Using cards to control corporate card spending is one thing but I agree it could not (and should not) be used for policing benefit spend.

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