Government Solutions

Automated Payment Acceptance with Guaranteed Good Funds at No Cost to Your Agency

Western Union® Global Business Payments offers in-person, telephone, and Internet payments to an incarcerated friend or family member's commissary account. It also provides multiple options for parole, probation, and community corrections payments. Western Union clients include state corrections, federal institutions, county jails, courts, and private correction facilities.

How Our Solutions Benefit You

Reliable

• Eliminates the risk of check/money orders lost in the mail
• Data is archived for up to seven years
• Mitigates skimming/lapping schemes and other sophisticated fraud activity
• Accurately validates cardholder identity prior to funds access

Cost Effective

• Guaranteed good funds
• No cost to the facility and no merchant processing fees
• Streamlines internal, manual, overhead intensive operations for processing funds disbursement and trust account deposits
• Contains costs associated with sophisticated fraud activity
• Decreases number of incoming money orders

How Our Solutions Benefit Inmates and Parolees

• Automated process reduces or eliminates issuing checks.
• Eliminates high check-cashing fees.
• Funds are available to parolees and released inmates generally within minutes.
• Allows offenders to send their parole and probation fees with cash at participating Western Union Agent locations nationwide. They can also send fees over the phone or Internet with a credit or debit card* 24 hours a day.
• Offers electronic trust account payments in person with cash, via phone or Internet or through a lobby kiosk.
• Two options for funds disbursement: 1) Consumers can walk into participating Agent locations worldwide to claim the funds or 2) re-loadable cards with easy 800# activation can be used to make purchases and ATM fund withdrawals via STAR®, NYCE® & Cirrus® networks.

* card issuer cash advance fee may apply.