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Club Lloyds.......not quite goodbye
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JustAnotherSaver wrote: »Any idea why you can collect cinema tickets for a solo and joint account (so 18 tickets between you), but if one of the account holders is deceased then you don’t get any cinema tickets? It’s still a joint account is it not? In name at least.
The usual position is that on death of one of the account holders, the joint account will pass by the rule of survivorship to the surviving account holder, outside the terms of the deceased’s Will.
So I think that means the joint account becomes a sole account. So that may result in the three accounts becoming just one sole account, eligible for just the 6 cinema ticketsI work within the voluntary sector, supporting vulnerable people to rebuild their lives.
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My Mums joint Club account with Dad changed to a sole account when he died. She already had a sole account, so now has two. Both still provide cinema tickets.0
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JustAnotherSaver wrote: »Any idea why you can collect cinema tickets for a solo and joint account (so 18 tickets between you), but if one of the account holders is deceased then you don’t get any cinema tickets? It’s still a joint account is it not? In name at least.0
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Does this sound like the LBG to-do list for 1st October?
BoS Classic with Vantage: run it down to £x. No further DDs or monthly pay in until further notice.
Club Lloyds: run it down to £x. DDs only required to maintain account interest. Monthly pay in only required to avoid account fee. No action required to maintain account benefits.0 -
That looks good to me (edit: for straight forward stand alone accounts - see below for possible technicalities with linked regular savers if applicable)
We live in hope of a decent switch offer, that we qualify for, to use the BOS accounts0 -
AlwaysLearnin wrote: »That looks good to me.
I suppose an addition might be:
In both cases, make sure that regular saver funding provided by the accounts won't fail due to there not being enough in the diminished account - but that depends upon each individual's set-up and would be, hopefully, covered by the "same day retry system" or an arranged overdraft.AlwaysLearnin wrote: »We live in hope of a decent switch offer, that we qualify for, to use the BOS accounts
Take care not to crash out of any related regular saver.0 -
In both cases, make sure that regular saver funding provided by the accounts won't fail due to there not being enough in the diminished account - but that depends upon each individual's set-up and would be, hopefully, covered by the "same day retry system" or an arranged overdraft.0 -
I have held my Lloyds current account, currently a Club Lloyds account, since the days of monthly 'bank charges' when the idea of interest being paid on current accounts was unimaginable, so I won't be closing my account because of the recent reduction in interest rates.
In one way I am pleased that banks are coming to their senses and realising that paying higher rates of interest on current accounts than savings accounts is not a good idea and contrary to what could be thought of as banking norms.
Having said that though, this is going to cost Lloyds in terms of the average amount deposited in these accounts. In the days when Lloyds were paying 5% where the balance was between £4-5k it made sense to keep money in the account, even if the balance exceeded £5k for part of the month. However, now it makes very little sense to do this just to get an extra 0.2% on a maximum of £1k.
I am now only keeping a very small accidental overdraft prevention buffer amount in the account in addition to monthly income and have transferred/will be transferring any excess elsewhere. There are instant access building society accounts, for example, paying more than 1%.
The Club Lloyds monthly saver and regular saver remain ok I guess although the interest rates are lower than last year. Apart from that, Lloyds interest rates are abysmal. 0.2% in the easy saver and a massive 0.6% on balances of £25,000+ in the Club Lloyds saver. Who in their right mind would deposit savings in such accounts?
I can see Lloyds losing deposits as a result of these changes. Also, without the decent interest, the Club Lloyds account has very little to recommend it over accounts offered by other banks so I expect this will see a reduction in the number of new customers attracted to the bank.0 -
You can fund BOS and Lloyds Regular Savers by SO from a non-BOS / non-Lloyds current account.
Quite so, but this is more an issue for those who fund a BoS/Club Lloyds/Lloyds RS from a local £5,000 balance and so are not, currently, too bothered if the incoming funding that is meant to re-balance the bank account is late as all it means is a day or two of sub-£5,000 balance.
Not so when the balance is just a few quid...:)0 -
For those who still need hub accounts, the Al Rayan 1.6%* Every Day Saver seems a reasonable alternative to a full-fat Santander 123 account. You can set up any number of SOs on it, and Faster Payment** is also available for payments in and out. Account comes with full FSCS protection.
*The interest / profit rate isn't guaranteed at 1.6% - but neither is the Santander 1.5%. There's no £20K limit on the Al Rayan, which could make life a little easier.
**It's the little bit slower version of FP - not instant, but also not quite as slow as the Tesco one. So perfectly acceptable.
Technically, the Al Rayan account also offers DDs. In practice, setting these up looks painful as you cannot do it online and have to contact them directly.0
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