Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

colsten

typistretired said:

P3 said:

Opt for a telephone appointment, even tho it take 40mins, it's better than wait for post, fill it in, walk to postbox, wait for passbook. (And potential have to pay 2nd class postage if no free postage)

Plus get it open in Feb and u can pay another £500 on 1st march

They emailed mine to me and I have posted today first class stamp to my local branch as advised

Can you share the application form, e.g. by putting it up on googledocs or in Dropbox? If you can't, please forward it to basicpay@gmail.com, then I'll put it up for people to download it

easysaver

colsten said:

easysaver said:

The application form for the YBS Loyalty Regular Saver can be downloaded from the website.
Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link here though?

You can post a  link, sort of. Just leave a blank after the fullstops so the software doesn't recognise it as a link. We can handle such pseudo links 
Thanks for posting it

Hope this works...
www. ybs. co. uk/productdata/application-YB571317B. pdf

Rich2808

easysaver said:

colsten said:

easysaver said:

The application form for the YBS Loyalty Regular Saver can be downloaded from the website.
Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link here though?

You can post a  link, sort of. Just leave a blank after the fullstops so the software doesn't recognise it as a link. We can handle such pseudo links 
Thanks for posting it

Hope this works...
www. ybs. co. uk/productdata/application-YB571317B. pdf

Thanks. I get this message when I click on that link.
"The requested URL was rejected due to a WAF violation. Please contact YBS Service Desk or Network Services Data.
Your support ID is: xxxx

[Go Back]"

How do you get emailed the form - as it would save them on postage?! Why on earth they cannot allow people to apply on line - if tiny Tipton can cope surely huge YBS can?

mhoc

I got "the requested "URL was rejected due to a WAF violation. Please contact YBS Service Desk or Network Services Data".  
Tried 2 different search engines

Blue_Sky

typistretired said:

Bemr said:

what7 said:

I wonder if I am eligible. I am already a member, with branch RS 1,2,3.
Before I closed these accounts, I opened Internet saver plus issue 7 in September 2020.

According to the phone call I just received from my local branch, you are NOT eligible.  I am in a similar position, continuous membership since 2017, but my only active account is less than a year old.  They told me I cannot open the new account.

Check in your closed accounts and if there is no break in membership as you opened new account whilst another was still open you should qualify.  Send them a message whilst you are logged in if you find they have made a mistake

I think what is causing confusion for some staff members of YBS is the following.

At the top of their information sheet just below the large 3.50% figure they say:-
To qualify for the Loyalty Regular Saver you must have had a continuous member relationship with YBS or Chelsea Building Society on or before the 1st January 2020.

However a little lower down in the information sheet in the section titled How do I open and manage my account it says:-
You must have an active, open account (Savings or Mortgage) with YBS or CBS that has been OPENED on or before the 1st January 2020.

These two requirements are not the same thing, so I can see why some people might get refused an account.

Fingerbobs

mhoc said:

I got "the requested "URL was rejected due to a WAF violation. Please contact YBS Service Desk or Network Services Data".  

Strange, I don't get that error. I just get a blank page. It's probably checking the Referrer, to stop people direct linking to the file.

planteria

not sure if you're aware of it, Yorkshire BS shortly offering a new RegSav for 'loyalty' (since December? 2019) members, paying 3.5%.

Rich2808

Blue_Sky said:

typistretired said:

Bemr said:

what7 said:

I wonder if I am eligible. I am already a member, with branch RS 1,2,3.
Before I closed these accounts, I opened Internet saver plus issue 7 in September 2020.

According to the phone call I just received from my local branch, you are NOT eligible.  I am in a similar position, continuous membership since 2017, but my only active account is less than a year old.  They told me I cannot open the new account.

Check in your closed accounts and if there is no break in membership as you opened new account whilst another was still open you should qualify.  Send them a message whilst you are logged in if you find they have made a mistake

I think what is causing confusion for some staff members of YBS is the following.

At the top of their information sheet just below the large 3.50% figure they say:-
To qualify for the Loyalty Regular Saver you must have had a continuous member relationship with YBS or Chelsea Building Society on or before the 1st January 2020.

However a little lower down in the information sheet in the section titled How do I open and manage my account it says:-
You must have an active, open account (Savings or Mortgage) with YBS or CBS that has been OPENED on or before the 1st January 2020.

These two requirements are not the same thing, so I can see why some people might get refused an account.

The former requirement surely must be right - as it implies you need to have kept an savings account with at least £100 in it (to be a 'member') or had a mortgage or both which was open on 1/1/20 and you still are a member. If it were a loyalty account it would be very unfair (as implied by the second requirement) to exclude someone who closed a YBS savings account opened before 1/1/20 and transferred the proceeds to another YBS account opened post 1/1/20 - or closed that savings account after they took out a YBS mortgage.

If its supposed to be a loyalty account it should reward loyalty?

And requirement 1 avoids the issue over what is an 'active account' - must you have paid funds in recently (what if it was a 2 year fixed rate bond which was still open but didn't permit top ups during the term).

[Deleted User]

mhoc said:

I got "the requested "URL was rejected due to a WAF violation. Please contact YBS Service Desk or Network Services Data".  
Tried 2 different search engines

It may be a custom PDF created for the actual application or customer, so it will not work for anyone else.

mhoc

I am also very confused as to weather my OH is eligible now. He had a regular saver 2 opened September 2019 which matured September 2020. Then he had a reg saver 3 opened February 2020 which matured this month and it transformed into a matured account - still has a few £ left. Does he qualify or not???
(Probably me being very dim)