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  • friolento
    friolento Posts: 4,090 Forumite
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    Just in case there’s now anyone else left with an old Halifax RS: as long as you still have a working Halifax login, you can replace it with the 8% in minutes. After renewing to an Everyday saver, you just log out and log in again, and you can then apply for the 8% one. No need to wait for a day. Though if you prefer, you can obviously leave it until next day, and hope your login will still be working then.

  • Nick_C
    Nick_C Posts: 7,692 Forumite
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    Monmouthshire RS

    OK, this is weird.

    My RS matured last Saturday. On Friday I withdrew £11999. On Saturday, following maturity, I decided to use the closing balance to open a new Iss 8 RS, £500 pcm, 6%.

    When I opened the App Exclusive RS Iss 1 a year ago, I accidentally opened two accounts. Knowing that you can only have one account, I never funded the second one.

    On Saturday, when I applied for the new RS in the app, it said my account was open and gave me the account number. I transferred the closing balance into it, not realising that the account number it gave me after applying for a new account was the second AERSI1 that I accidentally opened (but never funded) a year ago.

    So I now have a newly funded Issue 1 account with just short of £500 in it, with an interest rate of 7%.

    Looking back at the T&Cs for the Issue 1 account, the 12 month term starts from the day you first fund the account.

    Just wondering whether to stay under the radar and only fund it with £500 a month, or max it out to £1k!

  • surreysaver
    surreysaver Posts: 5,435 Forumite
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    edited Today at 7:55AM

    The Monmouthshire app was glitching this time last year when the launched it. I too have had two App Exclusive Issue 1s. One matured at the weekend, and my other fully funded matures the middle of next month

    I consider myself to be a male feminist. Is that allowed?
  • flaneurs_lobster
    flaneurs_lobster Posts: 11,914 Forumite
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    Just wondering whether to stay under the radar and only fund it with £500 a month, or max it out to £1k!

    Wolf/lamb.

    Don't imagine that £500 is further down the radar than £1k.

  • Rheumatoid
    Rheumatoid Posts: 1,133 Forumite
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    Yes, already had Halifax RS and was also offered Lloyds RS in the Lloyds app when I switched.

    16 Panel (250W JASolar) 4kWp, facing 170 degrees, 40 degree slope, Solis Inverter. Installed 29/9/2015 - £4700 (Norfolk Solar Together Scheme); 9.6kWh US2000C Pylontech batteries + Solis Inverter installed 12/4/2022 Year target (PVGIS-CMSAF) = 3880kWh - Installer estimate 3452 kWh:Average over 6 years = 4400 :j
  • mrcrumb
    mrcrumb Posts: 41 Forumite
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    Nationwide Flex Regular Saver. Can anyone confirm/deny if this account allows a 13th payment to make a maximum balance of 2600 please.

  • allegro120
    allegro120 Posts: 2,705 Forumite
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    Yes, Nationwide RS allows 13th payment. I always had £2600 balance at the end of 12 months.

  • janusd
    janusd Posts: 1,423 Forumite
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    i'm in the exact same boat as @surreysaver - app crash during opening, two accounts - though I didn't fund that second account until a month later - I assume there was a discussion about doing this in the old RS thread at the time - both accounts now have £12k in them, so if it were me, I would just continue funding the full £1k a month until maturity.

  • chris_the_bee
    chris_the_bee Posts: 568 Forumite
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    edited Today at 11:45AM

    Manchester

    Yes, mine does as well, although also didn't proceed.

  • fuzzzzy
    fuzzzzy Posts: 390 Forumite
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    edited Today at 12:46PM

    Monmouthshire RS

    I had a similar glitch after I closed my issue 8 and tried to open a new issue 8 in the app. It said my application was successful and have me an account number which I wrote down. I could not see a new account in the app so gave it a day. When I looked the next day there was still no new account there but I realised the account number it had given me for the new account was actually the account number of my fully funded exclusive issue 1 account which is due to mature the end of this month. So I just applied again and a new issue 8 was opened without any problems.

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