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Closing a Halifax Fixed Isa Early

Helene87 · 2015-11-09 14:59:48

Hello, I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer me some advice on this... I'm (hopefully) buying a house within the next few month. I wasn't really planning on buying a property this year, but an opportunity came up which I did not want to miss out on. However, in order to make the deposit, I'm going to have to shut…

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Westie983 Posts: 5,215 Forumite

22 November 2015 at 11:58PM

Just to clarify the above information is correct, you get given the interest paid daily upnto the day you close it, you are then charge the 90 days lost of interest off this figure, so you wont have earned enough interest in the account to cover the charge, unless its been 90 days, so you will lose some of the capital invested.

You can close this over the counter, at the branch and the interest is applied and charge deducted.

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