The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread

dibbles212

MonBS

My RS8 matures today though it hasn't matured into an easy access account on the app. I don't think I ever got set up for online banking on the browser. Does anyone have any advice to get my matured funds ASAP?

surreysaver

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82088822#Comment_82088822

It's an easy access account anyway. Can't you take your money out via the app?

dibbles212

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82088825#Comment_82088825

Perhaps, but it is still showing as a Regular Saver. So I guess you're suggesting to withdraw anyway as under the hood it's now an Easy Access account at a lower rate? I should be able to withdraw the interest earned tomorrow.

surreysaver

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82088839#Comment_82088839

No, you can withdraw from Monmouthshire Regular Saver Issue 8 anyway,, ergo it's an easy access account.

But today's Sunday, so nothing will happen today. If you don't need the money, wait for it to mature

Kim_13

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82088795#Comment_82088795

I only missed the first Fairer Share (due to missing the current account funding requirement in one month.) Which in later years would have qualified as they moved to two out of three months. I always kept £100 in an Easy Access when I didn't have the RS, but I was trying not to open RS that I wouldn't use.

It worked out well in terms of being an easy one to fill a gap during a quiet RS time (I have a lot more RS open now due to setting them up to take Monmouthshire funds over August and September.)

jaypers

There’s a Sunday times article today that has really annoyed me…….how can they be this stupid?! You need a subscription to read it but the headline gives it away……something that gets discussed to death on here but the fact a so called ‘money expert’ has written about this is incredibly stupid. Just shows how poor our media are now - https://www.thetimes.com/money/saving-investing/article/savings-rates-market-leading-advice-tips-6c0rn2n75

friolento

Some people can't be helped.

SJMALBA

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82089027#Comment_82089027

Full article

https://archive.ph/bWuXN

ToastLady

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82089027#Comment_82089027

I put the headline into Brave search and AI apparently agrees with The Sunday Times. 👎️

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82089027#Comment_82089027

There's (ATTOW) 70 comments below that SunTimes piece, most of which are pointing out the obvious omission from the article.

A couple of cynics even suggest that the "experts" quoted in the piece, from Private Office & Moneyfacts, are likely to get better commission returns on fixed bonds etc via their sites than they would from Regular Saver products.