{"id":916258,"date":"2025-03-22T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916258"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:21:32","slug":"upi-will-stop-working-for-millions-of-users-on-april-1-who-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/22\/upi-will-stop-working-for-millions-of-users-on-april-1-who-is-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI will stop working for millions of users on April 1: Who is at risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine standing at a checkout counter, groceries bagged, ready to pay and suddenly, your UPI payment fails. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a hypothetical nightmare&#8230; it could be your reality if you haven\u2019t updated your registered mobile number with your bank before April 1, 2025. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has issued a directive that could impact millions of UPI users, blocking access to digital payments for those with inactive or reassigned numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine standing at a checkout counter, groceries bagged, ready to pay and suddenly, your UPI payment fails. This isn\u2019t a hypothetical nightmare&#8230; it could be your reality if you haven\u2019t updated your registered mobile number with your bank before April 1, 2025. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has issued a directive that could impact millions of UPI users, blocking access to digital payments for those with inactive or reassigned numbers.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916258","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=916258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}