{"id":300719,"date":"2026-05-20T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:44:07","slug":"wolfforth-implements-new-safety-measures-for-online-utility-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300719\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfforth implements new safety measures for online utility payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City of Wolfforth is implementing new safety measures to protect against fraud when paying utility bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Starting June 15, customers will be required to validate their ZIP code when making any online transaction through the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ZIP code will need to match the billing ZIP code on the customer\u2019s credit or debit card. If the numbers do not match, the transaction may be declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Customers can check that their information is correct in their online payment portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other payment methods will not be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Questions can be directed to the city\u2019s utility billing department by calling 806-855-4120.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City of Wolfforth is implementing new safety measures to protect against fraud when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88766,319,66,168,170,169,223,109273,19982,109274],"class_list":["post-300719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-city-of-wolfforth","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-utility-payments","tag-wolfforth","tag-zip-code-validation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}