UPI alert: UPI will be blocked from February 1st! NPCI shares details
UPI alert, Big news for UPI payment users. From February 1, 2025, you will not be able to make UPI payments. If anyone uses special characters (like @, #, $, etc.) in the UPI app transaction ID, then that transaction will be canceled. There are many apps in India that use special characters in the transaction ID. However, most of the used apps, like Paytm and Phonepe, do not use special characters in the transaction ID.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has directed all UPI apps to use only alphanumeric (letters and numbers) characters in the transaction ID. If the apps do not comply with this rule, then their transactions will be rejected after February 1, 2025. NPCI issued a circular on January 9, 2025. It said that from February 1, 2025, all UPI apps will not have to use special characters in the transaction ID.
If a UPI app does not follow these rules, then UPI transactions from that app will not work. This rule applies to business users. But it will also affect general users. Because if you use UPI with an app that does not follow these rules, then your payment will be canceled.
NPCI has already given time to all UPI apps to make this change, whereby they can make the transaction ID 35-digit alphanumeric. Apart from this, apps have also been advised to avoid duplicate transaction IDs. Experts say that this change will improve the system. It will be easier to track transactions, and security will also be increased.
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