{"id":1035905,"date":"2026-09-16T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035905"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:47:35","slug":"govt-sets-0-4-fee-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-amid-political-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/govt-sets-0-4-fee-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-amid-political-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt sets 0.4% fee on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 amid political criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the platform from October 15 while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers will not be required to pay any charge when making such payments through UPI,&#8221; the finance ministry said in a statement, adding, &#8220;MDR is a charge within the merchant payment ecosystem. It is not a charge on customers making UPI payments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the platform from October 15 while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge. &#8220;Customers will not be required to pay any charge when making such payments through UPI,&#8221; the finance ministry said in a statement, adding, &#8220;MDR is a charge within the merchant payment ecosystem. It is not a charge on customers making UPI payments.&#8221;<\/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-1035905","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\/1035905","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=1035905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036006,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035905\/revisions\/1036006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}