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US cash usage may have hit its floor, says Boston Fed

Consumers prefer credit cards, the top payment method in 2022, for online payments

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US cash usage has levelled off and is potentially at its floor, a blogpost published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says.

In 2019, 26% of payments were in cash in the US, but that fell to 19%, 20% and 18% respectively in the following three years.

The proportion of payments made by credit card rose from 18% in 2016 to 31% in 2022. Payments made by debit card rose to 29% of the total in the same year, from 27% in 2016.

“Cash use had already been in decline in the years leading up to

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