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No more cash benefits and pensions

The government says it's scrapping paying benefits and pensions in cash.

From next year, it'll axe the MiCard system and pay all benefits directly into a bank account.

Treasury Minister Dr Alex Allinson says around 3,000 people currently collect their entitlements at post offices, but switching to electronic payments will save the government half a million pounds a year.

Cash payments will stop being an option on January 31.

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