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Transform public disbursements with digital payout solutions from Visa
Public sector organizations are transforming public disbursements with digital payment capabilities, to create more effective, responsive and inclusive programs, while reducing costs.
Deliver support, quickly and simply
With flexible options to disburse funds digitally to cards, accounts or digital wallets, governments can deliver an enhanced experience for payout recipients, while helping to reduce costs and increase program impact.
Simplify
Simplify the payout experience for recipients, including the unbanked
Streamline
Streamline payout costs and processes
Deliver
Deliver funds when and where they are needed, at home or abroad
Enhance
Enhance visibility over payouts and insights about how they are used
Discover the opportunity of digital disbursements in the public sector
Public disbursement programs are a significant policy tool, enabling governments to address social and economic goals and to fulfill their public mandate. Learn how digital payment capabilities can have a transformative impact on disbursement programs.
From identity to utility
See how governments can unlock the potential of citizen wallets with integrated payments.
Next-generation government disbursement programs
Management consulting leader Kearney evaluates the potential of digital payments in the public sector.
Reimagining humanitarian aid delivery
A research study from Devex looks at best practices for providing flexible options for local and situational needs.
Innovating social benefits disbursement
Read the success story of implementing over 150,000 payment cards in the Netherlands and Germany.
The money movement revolution
Visa Direct makes it possible for fast and secure payments to move around the world.
Future-ready disbursement strategies
Learn insights on how governments can build modern disbursement systems for crisis events.
Deliver public disbursements simply, flexibly and securely
How Governments are putting digital disbursement capabilities to work
Public sector organizations are implementing digital solutions to deliver funds quickly and securely across a wide range of use cases, from enhancing social welfare and fiscal stimulus programs domestically, to delivering pensions or disaster relief abroad.
Delivering digital payouts of state lottery winnings
The U.S. state of Maine streamlined payouts of state lottery winnings with real-time* payments to consumer debit cards.
Partnering to provide simplicity and security for financial guardians
In the Netherlands, an innovative partnership provides a solution for guardians to spend and manage money for their vulnerable clients.
Advancing goals with digital incentive payments
In Ukraine, the government offered quick incentive payments to digital card credentials for fully vaccinated adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delivering income subsidies with reloadable prepaid cards
The City of Saint Paul helped streamline delivery of monthly stipends, while simplifying how low-income families can use their money.
Reaching vulnerable families with payments to virtual accounts
In Guatemala, social benefit payments were sent digitally to families, including those lacking bank accounts.
Providing simple and flexible aid with prepaid debit cards
In Germany, cities can provide social benefits in a way that offers simplicity, efficiency and flexibility for both recipients and administrators.
Delivering swift aid in a crisis
In Spain, the government shifted delivery of social aid benefits from in-person to prepaid cards within weeks during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Visa offers flexible and scalable digital disbursement solutions for a wide range of public sector use cases
Physical and virtual cards
Visa Prepaid cards can offer effective and flexible solutions for a wide range of programs, including disbursements to recipients without access to a financial account.
Visa Prepaid overview
Discover the advantages of card-based disbursements for program administrators and their constituents.
Inclusive disbursements for the unbanked
Physical and virtual cards offer an effective way to deliver funds to constituents outside the financial system.
Learn about card disbursements
Spending visibility and program controls
Card-based disbursement programs can provide enhanced insights and controls over how public benefits are spent.
Digital push payments
Learn how a single connection to Visa’s network of networks can help governments to manage the complexity of international payouts.
Visa Direct overview
Discover how the Visa network can provide a scalable platform to deliver all-digital payments at home or abroad.
Simplify cross-border disbursements
Learn how a single connection to Visa’s network of networks can help governments to manage the complexity and risk of international payouts.
Learn about international payouts
Enhanced recipient experiences
See how governments can enable constituents to request and access funds with just a few clicks.
A robust ecosystem of digital disbursement capabilities
In governments’ efforts to implement effective digital disbursement programs that meet the needs of both beneficiaries and administrators, a complete digital payments ecosystem can help deliver the specialized requirements of public sector payments.
Disbursements ecosystem overview
Visa can help governments to bring together services and technology providers from across the digital disbursements value chain, helping them to access the payment resources and specialized expertise needed for their program objectives:
- Digital payment solutions and capabilities
- Implementation and operational expertise to effectively implement and execute disbursement programs
- Effective communications, training and monitoring to maximize the impact and effectiveness of digital disbursements programs
Visa Ready for Government Disbursements
The Visa Ready for Government Disbursements certification program helps technology providers build and launch payment solutions that meet Visa’s global standards around security and functionality. Governments can be introduced to solution providers around the world with innovative digital disbursement capabilities.
Discover Visa Ready for government disbursements
Financial education
Digital and financial education are key factors for maximizing the impact of many digital disbursement programs, including payouts to vulnerable individuals or emerging businesses. By helping program recipients obtain the knowledge and practical skills to access and navigate digital payments and funds, governments can deliver holistic programs that are more inclusive and effective.