{"id":1035957,"date":"2026-09-16T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035957"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:22:21","slug":"upi-mdr-from-october-15-will-your-mutual-fund-sip-insurance-premium-or-ott-autopay-get-costlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/upi-mdr-from-october-15-will-your-mutual-fund-sip-insurance-premium-or-ott-autopay-get-costlier\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR from October 15: Will your mutual fund SIP, insurance premium or OTT AutoPay get costlier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 15 October, selected UPI payments above \u20b92,000 will attract MDR. But recurring payments through UPI AutoPay and mandates are treated differently, while mutual fund and other capital-market payments have a separate lower rate.<\/p>\n<p>UPI users will see a new merchant discount rate (MDR) framework from 15 October 2026, but the change does not mean that every payment above \u20b92,000 will become chargeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 15 October, selected UPI payments above \u20b92,000 will attract MDR. But recurring payments through UPI AutoPay and mandates are treated differently, while mutual fund and other capital-market payments have a separate lower rate. UPI users will see a new merchant discount rate (MDR) framework from 15 October 2026, but the change does not mean that every payment above \u20b92,000 will become chargeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035957","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035959,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035957\/revisions\/1035959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}