New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to end a controversial pilot program that provided migrants being housed in city shelters with prepaid debit cards, ABC7 reported.

Preloaded Mastercards were given out at the city’s intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies, with a migrant family of four receiving approximately $350 a week under the initiative.

According to the New York Post, New Jersey-based startup Mobility Capital Finance was awarded a $53 million, one-year contract that sparked criticism when the City of New York bypassed the usual bidding process.

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