I just called to cancel my prepaid card, and when the rep asked why I was cancelling, I said it was due to the fact that the card no longer allows debit card reloads. I said he probably had a ton of cancellations over the past week or so. He told me that debit card loads are only being temporarily suspended until the new chip-enabled prepaid card is mailed out in early November, and then debit card reloads will resume. He said that originally the rollout was supposed to be October but it got postponed by a month.
Has anyone heard this? He seemed very confident that this was the case. I haven't heard this mentioned anywhere else, so I'm not sure if he was just making something up or misunderstood something.