Halifax reward account online now, and the old accounts....

LongTermLurker

YorkshireBoy wrote: »

Glad I did hold off now because today's post has brought the paperwork for the first one applied for.

Now have 3 x HFX, 1 x possible (need 7 days to think about it) BoS, and 2 x "closed" (before they were even opened) BoS.

Will have to put BoS on hold for a while and maybe apply again at a later date.

Good news - congrats on the success. I'll wait and see what happens about my pending bos a/c.

You said the one you have pending shows as such in your user area? Mine doesn't, but it definitely said I would hear within 14 days. Perhaps it will appear when they start to manually review it.

gelato_cat

I got a letter from BoS yesterday saying my application was successful (when I applied online I got the "we need to think about this and will write to you" message at the end, although the account showed up on my Online Banking etc).

So now I have one HICA, three Halifax Reward CAs and a BoS one. Don't think I'll be applying for any more BoS ones!

Have funded them all with £1k, so let's see what happens.

Suze

YorkshireBoy wrote: »

Glad I did hold off now because today's post has brought the paperwork for the first one applied for.

Now have 3 x HFX, 1 x possible (need 7 days to think about it) BoS, and 2 x "closed" (before they were even opened) BoS.

Will have to put BoS on hold for a while and maybe apply again at a later date.

YorkshireBoy

LongTermLurker wrote: »

You said the one you have pending shows as such in your user area? Mine doesn't, but it definitely said I would hear within 14 days. Perhaps it will appear when they start to manually review it.

The BoS account pending has a roll number assigned, and appeared in my account list almost straight away, but there is no "take me to" box to the right of it.

The HFX account I mentioned above wasn't listed, but I added it manually today through the 'my preferences' tool. Despite today's letter saying I've been accepted the account is still marked "application decision" though. Maybe this will change when I send the £100 requested in the letter?

withnell

Yeh, the "take me to" only appears after the account is activated with a deposit - I had issues after making the deposit from Tescos via FP - apparently FP payments in to activate are not allowed, and it got bounced to a holding account!

noh

withnell wrote: »

Yeh, the "take me to" only appears after the account is activated with a deposit - I had issues after making the deposit from Tescos via FP - apparently FP payments in to activate are not allowed, and it got bounced to a holding account!

All 3 of mine were activated with faster payments from my First Direct account with no problems at all.

Nigel

AP

Has anyone actually received this £5 yet? I thought Halifax credited interest on the last day of the month for current accounts but nothing was showing up on mine even though I had paid in a cheque in excess of £2k in February. The entire amount was withdrawn on the day the cheque became 'available'.

10_66

AP wrote: »

Has anyone actually received this £5 yet?

No £5's in mine yet, they've been too busy reducing the interest rate of their Web Saver Reward (July 08 one) to 1.80%.

opinions4u

AP wrote: »

Has anyone actually received this £5 yet? I thought Halifax credited interest on the last day of the month for current accounts but nothing was showing up on mine even though I had paid in a cheque in excess of £2k in February. The entire amount was withdrawn on the day the cheque became 'available'.

The date that sits in my mind is the 2nd of the following month. Can't find it online as the "important info" link on the bank account page of Halifax/Bank of Scotland web sites doesn't work!!

YorkshireBoy

opinions4u wrote: »

The date that sits in my mind is the 2nd of the following month.

Seem to remember it's the first bank working day of the month, which is where you may have got the 2nd from?

derrick

AP wrote: »

Has anyone actually received this £5 yet? I thought Halifax credited interest on the last day of the month for current accounts but nothing was showing up on mine even though I had paid in a cheque in excess of £2k in February. The entire amount was withdrawn on the day the cheque became 'available'.

Just checked mine.

I changed from the HICA to the reward over the phone on the 9th February, have since deposited the £1000. for the month and it is showing that interest was credited on 28th February, a Saturday, (13p net, as only had an average of around £100. in account over the month,so this works out about right if interest is 2.5%), I assume that is the interest for the HICA and if so will I still get the £5. tomorrow? or have Halifax messed up?
Name of account showing as; - "Reward Current Account"