Payment during a crisis

Make sure that you can pay in several different ways

• Have accounts with different banks, cards from different payment card providers and access to mobile payment solutions such as the swedish payment method swish.
• Have several options for internet connection.
• Have several options to identify yourself electronically.
• Keep a week’s worth of cash at home – in small denominations.

Have a week’s worth of home preparedness

It is good if you can go a week without buying food. This will reduce the need to be able to pay in the event of a crisis. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has examples on questions you can discuss with family, friends and neighbours:

• What home prepardness do you have in terms of water bottles, food, medicines etc?
• What do you not have at home that may need to be purschased during the first week?
• What alternative methods for payments do you have?
• What alternatives do you have if your usual shop is affected by disruptions in payment systems?
• What possibilities do you have to help others and who in your neighbourhood can help you?

Read more about payment during a crisis

• Information on payments and cash in a crisis (MSB – in swedish).