Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

Wheres_My_Cashback

Remember it's the 20th tomorrow and we all know what happens at 1400 on the 20th of every other month....

Virgin HBC 12 and hopefully a jump up to 2% 

Daliah

redpete said:

Mrs RP has just told me she might be a customer of YBS, maybe from a long-forgotten Egg account?  Worth investigating!

Definitely. 

Descrabled

Wheres_My_Cashback said:

Remember it's the 20th tomorrow and we all know what happens at 1400 on the 20th of every other month....

Virgin HBC 12 and hopefully a jump up to 2% 

Me thinks 2% is not enough. I'm using  my HB accounts as easy access from August.  I have little savings earning less than 1.75%

See also report on BBC that BoE may increase rates by 0.5% in August.

wiseonesomeofthetime

AndyTh_2 said:

Seems I'm not eligible for the YBS Loyalty Regular Saver even though I've continuously had accounts with them since 2020 (different accounts over time)

Are they limiting the 1 year to currently open accounts, rather than continuous membership between accounts overlapping that are now closed?

e.g. 2020 I had an ISA, then months before closing I opened a "Online Rainy Day" savings account to keep membership for loyalties like this, which I closed after opening the Internet Saver issue 10 in 2022

Same here. 

Appears we may be being penalised for closing poorer, unbeneficial accounts. 

I have sent a secure message, as currently on holiday, so see what they come back with. 

Won't lose any sleep over it though, especially as a variable rate. 

Daliah

wiseonesomeofthetime said:

Won't lose any sleep over it though, especially as a variable rate. 

If they were to drop the rate / if you could find a better rate elsewhere, you could close the YBS account without penalty. Until either of these (unlikely, IMO) events happens, your money might as well earn 5%, no?

gwapenut

wiseonesomeofthetime said:

AndyTh_2 said:

Seems I'm not eligible for the YBS Loyalty Regular Saver even though I've continuously had accounts with them since 2020 (different accounts over time)

Are they limiting the 1 year to currently open accounts, rather than continuous membership between accounts overlapping that are now closed?

e.g. 2020 I had an ISA, then months before closing I opened a "Online Rainy Day" savings account to keep membership for loyalties like this, which I closed after opening the Internet Saver issue 10 in 2022

Same here. 

Appears we may be being penalised for closing poorer, unbeneficial accounts. 

I have sent a secure message, as currently on holiday, so see what they come back with. 

Won't lose any sleep over it though, especially as a variable rate. 

I would point out to them that your account holding pattern WOULD qualify you for continuous society Membership and voting rights (subject to holding £100 or more in the case of voting rights) and that you don't see why you should not also qualify for an account targetting loyal Members

apt

Don't see YBS regular saver being variable as any disadvantage. Interest rates are only going to go up over the next year. 

typistretired

Because I have the Xmas and help me save regular savers I am not given the option of opening this loyalty one

typistretired

typistretired said:

Because I have the Xmas and help me save regular savers I am not given the option of opening this loyalty one

Sorry yesterday I was not given the option to apply but today when I clicked new account it was there along with other savings accounts so now opened

redpete

redpete said:

Mrs RP has just told me she might be a customer of YBS, maybe from a long-forgotten Egg account?  Worth investigating!

It was an Egg account, and it contains £70, and YBS 5% RS account opened and should be able to transfer in first £500 tomorrow!