Are you a person who has opted to be receiving unemployment insurance, disability insurance or paid family leave benefits using the Bank of America EDD debit card? Have you subsequently received the actual Bank of America EDD card? If your answers to both of these questions are in the affirmative, then you will probably be interested in knowing how you can go about activating your Bank of America EDD debit card online. This is because the next logical step, after receiving the Bank of America EDD debit card is to activate it, in order to start using the card. Now you can either activate your Bank of America EDD card by phone or you can activate it online – though many people find online activation to be more convenient.
What activating your Bank of America EDD card online entails, at a glance
Activating your Bank of America EDD card online mainly entails going to the Bank of America website (specifically to the EDD Debit cards page on the Bank of America website), and clicking to indicate that you wish to activate a card. Then you are required to enter a few details in order to complete the activation. In the course of the activation process, you also get to select a PIN for your Bank of America EDD card.
Things you need to have, to activate your Bank of America EDD card online
To activate your Bank of America EDD card online, you need to have the card with you (because you will be required, at one point, to enter the card number). You also need to have access to a computing device that is connected to the Internet, for you to activate your Bank of America EDD card online.
The website you need to visit, to activate your Bank of America EDD card online
To activate your Bank of America EDD card online, you need to visit the Bank of America website (specifically the EDD card page on the Bank of America website). The address that can get you to the EDD card page on the Bank of America website is provided below, in the ‘links to help you’ section.
Steps you need to follow, to activate your Bank of America EDD card online
- Get the browser application on your computing device up and running. Then enter the address for the Bank of America website (EDD cards page) into the browser, so as to be transferred to that page. The address in question for the Bank of America website (EDD cards page) is provided below, in the ‘links to help you’ section.
- When you get to the Bank of America website (EDD cards page), focus the attention of your eyes towards the middle of the page. There, you will see somewhere written (in red font) ‘Just received a Card? Activate it now and get started’. Next to that text is a blue-colored ‘Activate my Card’ button. Click on that button.
- On the screen that you are taken to after clicking on the ‘Activate my card’ button, enter your card number. Then click on the ‘continue’ button.
- Provide the other required pieces of information in the subsequent screens, to complete the Bank of America EDD card online activation.
Links to help you
Bank of America (EDD Cards page): http://www.bankofamerica.com/eddcard
Bank of America EDD card activation start page: https://prepaid.bankofamerica.com/EddCard/Pages/CardActivationStep1.aspx