Helping relieve economic hardship in Spain

Action

• Visa partnered with a Spanish financial institution, as well as more than 100 local governments and organisations, to develop social benefit prepaid card programmes in municipalities throughout the country.
• Prepaid cards could be reloaded as needed to provide recipients with uninterrupted access to funds.
• The cards could be set up to limit transactions to specific outlets, such as supermarkets and pharmacies.

Status

The solution enabled governments and charities to quickly distribute payments and better control spending of social benefit payments, helping ensure targeted use of programme funds. Nearly 400,000 cards were delivered by 2022.¹

¹Visa Navigate. January 2022.