{"id":126797,"date":"2026-08-08T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/no-charges-for-upi-users-govt-clarifies-person-to-person-transactions-to-remain-free\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:36:03","slug":"no-charges-for-upi-users-govt-clarifies-person-to-person-transactions-to-remain-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/no-charges-for-upi-users-govt-clarifies-person-to-person-transactions-to-remain-free\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges for UPI users: Govt clarifies person-to-person transactions to remain free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, the Ministry of Finance has said that users will not be charged for making UPI payments, and all Person-to-Person (P2P) transactions will continue to remain free. It said that if a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) is introduced in the future, it will apply only to a limited category of merchant transactions above a specified threshold.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, the Ministry of Finance has said that users will not be charged for making UPI payments, and all Person-to-Person (P2P) transactions will continue to remain free. It said that if a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) is introduced in the future, it will apply only to a limited category of merchant transactions&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/no-charges-for-upi-users-govt-clarifies-person-to-person-transactions-to-remain-free\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No charges for UPI users: Govt clarifies person-to-person transactions to remain free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":126798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}