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  • RosieRooBear
    RosieRooBear Posts: 191 Forumite
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    For those funding multiple Market Harborough BS regular savers:

    I have just received a letter from them saying that they've reviewed my account balances and they've noticed my deposits have exceeded the monthly limit allowed.

    They've asked me to contact them within 14 days of the letter to arrange for the overpaid funds to be returned to me, saying if they don't hear from me they'll send the funds to my nominated account but that they'll still pay interest earned on the excess funds.

    They've also enclosed the summary box for their Fixed Term Regular Saver (30.11.2025).
    When I applied for a second one they gave me a new ID so technically I’ve got two separate accounts with them, wonder if they’ll notice that 🤔, hopefully not 🤞
  • chris_the_bee
    chris_the_bee Posts: 458 Forumite
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    For those funding multiple Market Harborough BS regular savers:

    I have just received a letter from them saying that they've reviewed my account balances and they've noticed my deposits have exceeded the monthly limit allowed.

    They've asked me to contact them within 14 days of the letter to arrange for the overpaid funds to be returned to me, saying if they don't hear from me they'll send the funds to my nominated account but that they'll still pay interest earned on the excess funds.

    They've also enclosed the summary box for their Fixed Term Regular Saver (30.11.2025).
    Market Harborough
    Seems pretty clear to me.

    Customers may only have two Fixed Term Regular Saver accounts open at a time, either solely or jointly, with a combined maximum deposit of £250 per month not exceeding the maximum balance of £3,000.

    However, current issue (30.09.2026) states maximum balance of £3,750 I assume account was released in July thereby allowing 15 monthly payments.
  • chris_the_bee
    chris_the_bee Posts: 458 Forumite
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    For those funding multiple Market Harborough BS regular savers:

    I have just received a letter from them saying that they've reviewed my account balances and they've noticed my deposits have exceeded the monthly limit allowed.

    They've asked me to contact them within 14 days of the letter to arrange for the overpaid funds to be returned to me, saying if they don't hear from me they'll send the funds to my nominated account but that they'll still pay interest earned on the excess funds.

    They've also enclosed the summary box for their Fixed Term Regular Saver (30.11.2025).
    Market Harborough
    Seems pretty clear to me.

    Customers may only have two Fixed Term Regular Saver accounts open at a time, either solely or jointly, with a combined maximum deposit of £250 per month not exceeding the maximum balance of £3,000.

    However, current issue (30.09.2026) states maximum balance of £3,750 I assume account was released in July thereby allowing 15 monthly payments.
  • Kim_13
    Kim_13 Posts: 3,684 Forumite
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    For those funding multiple Market Harborough BS regular savers:

    I have just received a letter from them saying that they've reviewed my account balances and they've noticed my deposits have exceeded the monthly limit allowed.

    They've asked me to contact them within 14 days of the letter to arrange for the overpaid funds to be returned to me, saying if they don't hear from me they'll send the funds to my nominated account but that they'll still pay interest earned on the excess funds.

    They've also enclosed the summary box for their Fixed Term Regular Saver (30.11.2025).
    Thanks for flagging this. I had been considering trying to get their latest issue when funds allow, but will continue to fully fund the 6% version I have and worry about a replacement account when the time comes.

    Will you be contacting them? I’m wondering if they will return latest funds deposited or those earning the lowest interest (which are probably the same for MSErs, unless the first deposit was delayed before being credited at MHBS end.) Interesting that they have enclosed the summary box for Issue 1 when technically no one could exceed the limit by funding that account with £250 given that it is Issue 1.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,230 Forumite
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    edited 8 August at 2:43PM
    For anyone struggling with 2FA with Monmouth, I've just got in by requesting a verification code by text, it's pinging into my messages, went to message, highlighted the pin and hit copy, returned to the Monmouth app and it's automatically brought up the option to copy the pin from the message.  Previously when I've just seen the message and remembered the number, the grey text input box didn't activate.

    The tenner I sent yesterday has been credited so I'm off to sort out some more.
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  • Bridlington1
    Bridlington1 Posts: 4,117 Forumite
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    Kim_13 said:
    For those funding multiple Market Harborough BS regular savers:

    I have just received a letter from them saying that they've reviewed my account balances and they've noticed my deposits have exceeded the monthly limit allowed.

    They've asked me to contact them within 14 days of the letter to arrange for the overpaid funds to be returned to me, saying if they don't hear from me they'll send the funds to my nominated account but that they'll still pay interest earned on the excess funds.

    They've also enclosed the summary box for their Fixed Term Regular Saver (30.11.2025).
    Thanks for flagging this. I had been considering trying to get their latest issue when funds allow, but will continue to fully fund the 6% version I have and worry about a replacement account when the time comes.

    Will you be contacting them? I’m wondering if they will return latest funds deposited or those earning the lowest interest (which are probably the same for MSErs, unless the first deposit was delayed before being credited at MHBS end.) Interesting that they have enclosed the summary box for Issue 1 when technically no one could exceed the limit by funding that account with £250 given that it is Issue 1.
    I'm in two minds whether or not to to be honest, the letter says if I do not contact them they'll return the excess funds to my nominated account, which is what I'd've asked them to do anyway.

    On the other hand it would be useful to find out further info as to which accounts they'll be taking the funds from etc.

    Regardless if I were to contact them I wouldn't do a Friday afternoon given that they've said in the letter that funds would arrive within 5 working days of being sent so wouldn't want payments sent today and delayed over the weekend so if I were to contact them it would be early on in the week, therefore if I do contact them it'll most likely be on a Monday, probably the Monday after next given that I have alternate Mondays off work due to working a 9 day fortnight.
  • mebu60
    mebu60 Posts: 1,729 Forumite
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    friolento said:
    Slinky said:
    Slinky said:
    Sorry to ask, I'm a bit late to set up a new Monmouth account. I'm about to try to fund it, do I set it up as a Personal or Business account from my funding account please?
    Good timing I just received a letter from them with this info, their instructions say:

    Select Business account - even though you're paying into your account, you're paying it to MBS first

    Account Name use "Monmouthshire Building Society"

    Sort code 40 05 30 - will show as HSBC

    Account Number 14576608

    Payment Reference - your MBS savings account number
    Slinky said:
    Sorry to ask, I'm a bit late to set up a new Monmouth account. I'm about to try to fund it, do I set it up as a Personal or Business account from my funding account please?
    Personal.   
    Standing Orders and Electronic Transfer
     
    To set up a standing order or make a single electronic payment to your savings account, you will need to provide the following details to your bank:

    Account Name: Your full name (the account holder)

    Sort Code: 40-05-30

    Account Number: 14576608

    Reference: XXXXXXXXXX (Please make sure there are no spaces or hyphens - use the Monmouthshire Building Society account number you want to credit).


    Contradictory advice here - not just whether to use "Business" or "Personal", but also whether to us your own name or "Monmouthshire Building Society" as the account name.

    I think I'll stick MBS in as the payee, I've got loads of others in my payees with my name on, so at least this will stand out a bit if it works!

    I always use - with all providers - a unique "name" in the payee name field of transfers to my own accounts. Format: My initials - bank/BS initials - last 4 digits of account number.

    Predictably, this leads to CoP failure, so where I am unsure about my payee details, I first get the CoP check done with my actual name, and once confirmed, I go back and change the account name to my preferred nomencalture.
    You're not with Santander then! Used to be able to go back and change name, now it's a CoP failure and it's no longer a warning but a block. I now have a lot of payees called mebu60 which is a tad inconvenient.
  • where_are_we
    where_are_we Posts: 1,246 Forumite
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    Is the maximum balance for this going to be 3250 (13x250)? Can't see anything restricting 13th payments, or stating a maximum balance.

    Thanks
    That`s my reading of it too. I have set up 12 SO`s for £250 (following opening deposit of £250) starting 1/9/25 ending 1/8/26. Maturity is 28/8/26 so that 13th payment of £250 will earn 6.5% for 28 days which makes it worth doing. I would imagine that 6.5% will look a good rate during August 2026.
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