{"id":1035901,"date":"2026-09-16T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035901"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:46:24","slug":"zero-charges-on-person-to-person-transactions-new-upi-rules-keep-all-p2p-payments-100-free-regardless-of-amount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/zero-charges-on-person-to-person-transactions-new-upi-rules-keep-all-p2p-payments-100-free-regardless-of-amount\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero charges on person-to-person transactions: New UPI rules keep all P2P payments 100% free regardless of amount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): In a major policy announcement aimed at safeguarding everyday digital transactions, the government has clarified that all Person-to-Person (P2P) UPI transfers will remain entirely free of charges, without any restrictions on payment amounts, according to the Ministry of Finance press release. <\/p>\n<p>Under a newly structured framework introduced under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, approximately 96% of Person-to-Merchant (P2M) transactions will also stay free, ensuring that individuals, small vendors, and micro-enterprises face zero payment friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): In a major policy announcement aimed at safeguarding everyday digital transactions, the government has clarified that all Person-to-Person (P2P) UPI transfers will remain entirely free of charges, without any restrictions on payment amounts, according to the Ministry of Finance press release. Under a newly structured framework introduced under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, approximately 96% of Person-to-Merchant (P2M) transactions will also stay free, ensuring that individuals, small vendors, and micro-enterprises face zero payment friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035998,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035901\/revisions\/1035998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}