The article reports that Iowa Workforce Development, an employment security agency, is planning to begin making its unemployment payments using direct deposit or prepaid debit cards branded by credit card company Visa Inc. The agency's director, Elisabeth Buck, thinks that by making these changes, ...
The article reports that Iowa's Workforce Development department decided to distribute unemployment benefits on Visa-branded prepaid debit cards or via direct deposit instead of posting checks from November 2008. The department believes that the measure will ensure savings of $150,000 per year in ...