Systems and methods are provided for use in responding to purchase behaviors of participants of disbursement programs. One exemplary method includes accessing transaction data associated with a payment account, where the payment account is associated with a participant and a disbursement program and where the transaction data is representative of a number of transactions made to the payment account. The method also includes identifying, for each of the transactions, a classification based on at least one classification criteria and calculating a behavior score based on at least one behavior parameter and the classification of at least one of the transactions. And, when the behavior score satisfies a remedial threshold, causing a remedial response to be provided to the participant, whereby the remedial response indicates to the participant to alter one or more purchase behaviors.