Citibank to Takeover Travel Cards

Week of August 11, 2008

In the coming months, Department of Defense (DoD) travelers will have to keep their eyes and ears open, because the government travel charge card contract with Bank of America will expire and transition to Citibank on Nov. 30 at midnight. The 1.2 million current cardholders, including 82,000 Marines, won't need to fill out any new paperwork or applications to receive their new travel card. However, they will need to take some steps to get their new card up and running. "Marines will need to call Citibank to acknowledge receiving the new card and accept the Citibank card agreement. This (is) critical because that's how we will keep track of who has received the card," said David Fuqua, Marine Corps GTCC component program manager. For more information, read the full article on Military.com.

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