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How do i pay into my isa

patrickbateman
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Hi, I have invested £3K in a Birmingham Midshires 5 year fixed rate ISA. I opened it in June and it paid interest at 5%.
This ISA has now been pulled but I now want to invest the remaining £2K of this years allowance.
I'm told that I can only open 1 ISA each tax year, and the one I have is now closed.
How do I procede?
This ISA has now been pulled but I now want to invest the remaining £2K of this years allowance.
I'm told that I can only open 1 ISA each tax year, and the one I have is now closed.
How do I procede?
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I'm not sure you can proceed, other than waiting until April and opening a new one.0
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Always read the T&Cs.
BM usually have these very clearly displayed on the product page of the web site.
The current 5 year FRISA T&Cs can be found here.3 DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS
3.1 You can pay all or part of your yearly cash ISA allowance into your Account until we stop selling it.0 -
You can invest up to the remaining £7,680 of your ISA allowance in a stocks and shares ISA. That's all you can do, or wait until next year.0
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Thanks for the replies chaps. Thats pretty annoying since the ISA was closed within days of my opening cheque being sent to them.
I understand the account conditions, though my interpretation upon opening was that I would be able to utilise the remaining cash allowance with the same organisation if the version I opened was closed.
I think I will call them up to confirm.0 -
If BM have any current ISA offers open then you might be able to squeeze the rest of your allowance under the one 'wrapper' but that is up to them.
Good luck!0 -
You can still transfer the £3k into another cash ISA and pay the rest into that. Though you wont get 5% anymore.0
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MoneySaverLog wrote: »You can still transfer the £3k into another cash ISA and pay the rest into that. Though you wont get 5% anymore.0
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Sometimes the provider will allow you to open another ISA with them and use the rest of your allowance there. But not all will. You should ring and check.0
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Well I rang up Birmingham Midshires and they wouldnt allow me to pay into a different ISA with them. I quoted there terms and conditions and the girl on the phone admitted that it wasnt totally clear.
I cannot believe that some institutions will allow you to pay into a different ISA account but others won't. Surely the rules should be cut and dry. I may contact the Financial Ombudsman to challenge that.
Transferring to a new ISA isnt really an option because the interest penalty will reduce the sum to lower than I invested.
I'm normally pretty money savvy, and hold my hands up when I make a mistake, but this all feels slightly mismanaged to me. Surely if the Government issue me as an individual an allowance, then I should be able to utilise it and not lose out because a bank closes an account. I understand this won't affect the majority of customers, but it is a weakness in ISA regulations.0 -
Surely the rules should be cut and dry.I may contact the Financial Ombudsman to challenge that.0
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