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wiseonesomeofthetime

castle96 said:

Bridlington1 said:

WindfallWendy said:

Bridlington1 said:

DJDools said:

mebu60 said:

jaypers said:

Looks like the interest for the YBS Christmas Regular Saver has been credited today. Mine showing as £40.95

I'm planning to close on Thursday and transfer out so that I get the funds on Friday rather than next week. 

Re:  YBS Christmas Regular eSaver 2024

Doesn't it mature on Thursday (31st) and automatically transfer into an easy access account on the same day?

It becomes an EA account on 1/11/24. Given that withdrawals from YBS arrive the next day this would mean the funds won't arrive in your nominated account until Sat 2/11/24 if you waited till it had converted before withdrawing, thus if you are wanting to use the funds to feed other regular savers I'd advise closing it early at some point on 31/10/24 to ensure your funds arrive on time for the regular savers.

When you say "on time" you mean to maximise the interest, right? Are there some RegSavers that are specific about a day the money hits the account?? So far all mine are SOs and therefore up to me when they go in. 

That said, I can't wait (?) for this time next year when my accounts are all maturing and I have to shuffle it all away into new accounts to keep the interest rate on the cash!! 😄🧐🥳

Yes I'm referring to maximising interest.

If you make a withdrawal from YBS to an external (non-YBS) account the funds arrive the next day. Thus if you waited till 1/11/24 to make the withdrawal the funds would arrive on Sat 2/11/24.

By doing this not only would you not be able to use the funds to feed regular savers on 1/11/24 but many regular savers operate on a basis where funds that arrive on a non-working day will be treated as having been received the next working day for interest purposes (e.g. NatWest/RBS). Thus for many regular savers you'd have to delay funding them till Mon 4/11/24 if you wanted to avoid having money sat in a regular saver earning no interest for 2 days.

I really admire your commitment to getting the interest!! Which does remind me that I need to sort out my Santander bonus rate account this week. Bye bye 7% on £4000 🫤

    BRIDLINGTON                          ?? Mine shows 5.84% Was it ever 7% ? When is it going then. Had interest on the 28/10...........

Yours will be the issue earning 6% AER, 5.84% gross, by the sound of it.

janusd

GetRichOrDieSaving said:

Does the Gatehouse RS allow a 13th payment? Mine has £3600 in but only matures on 29th Nov 24 so would like to squeeze another in if allowed. Cheers

I am in the same position as you, and a few weeks ago I came across a couple of "13th Payment" threads which both said that Gatehouse allow 13th payments - so I added it back into my manual list to be paid on the 1st.

Marcoos

Principality Christmas 2025 Regular Saver

Opened and funded as a new user earlier today, very quick and easy to do. Sent a £1 tester and was there within the 2 hours. 

Can log in and out of the account fine also. Just won't be able to do much till the activation letter arrives. But not an issue as won't need to move or withdraw.

WindfallWendy

@castle96 - there is a 12 month bonus rate if you are an Edge account holder and have an Edge saver too. But if you've held that account for more than 12 months, then the rate goes down. Top tip I found on here was to close it, open a new one (as you'll get another 12 months at a bonus rate) and put your balance into the new one ASAP. Noting that you can't have more than one Edge saver with the bonus rate open at any one time. 

castle96

mmm. Must have done just that (and forgotten) back in Aug. Thanks

WindfallWendy

simonsmithsays said:

We definitely need more @Bridlington1 on here.

Whilst I don't want to weigh them down with any responsibility of digging up more gems I've been tremendously appreciative of, not only the work they've put in on this thread but also of them keeping it on track (which ironically is not what I'm doing now) and not getting involved in spats.

I'm not sure where the comment about spats stems from (should I be paranoid?!) but just in case anyone thought I was being rude (which I wasn't), I genuinely do appreciate the commitment to the interest and *was* just checking that the comment about a payment into a regular saver being considered 'late' was just a self-imposed position.

Further, I was keen to make sure that there weren't any Regular Saver accounts out there which would likely have a monthly deadline for any money going in... just in case there is potential to get stung. I don't think this is the case though as I haven't heard anyone respond to this point. I guess it could be a neat way for banks to justify reducing interest, but also could get quite convoluted, so they just stick to a calendar month payment. Correct? I should probably get into the habit of reading the small print. I'm still only a month into my MSE journey 

WindfallWendy

castle96 said:

mmm. Must have done just that (and forgotten) back in Aug. Thanks

I think the current bonus rate is only about 6% now though, so I'm holding on to my 7% as long as I can (two more days). But it's still better than the default

surreysaver

I've got an email off Ecology saying they're no longer accepting direct debits for saving accounts from 15th January

kaMelo

surreysaver said:

I've got an email off Ecology saying they're no longer accepting direct debits for saving accounts from 15th January

Well that is disappointing news.

ForumUser7

kaMelo said:

surreysaver said:

I've got an email off Ecology saying they're no longer accepting direct debits for saving accounts from 15th January

Well that is disappointing news.

Their regular saver is now unfortunately of really limited use/no use. Direct debits were the only reason I held accounts with ecology.