{"id":235726,"date":"2025-10-31T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:27:14","slug":"how-long-will-you-get-state-pension-for-huge-variation-across-country-revealed-money-blog-money-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235726\/","title":{"rendered":"How long will you get state pension for? Huge variation across country revealed | Money blog | Money News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we know from this morning&#8217;s switching league table (see our 6am post), banks are constantly competing for customers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the switching offers currently available&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Barclays<\/p>\n<p>Switching to one of Barclays&#8217; Blue Rewards bank accounts and depositing \u00a32,000 can get you \u00a3200.<\/p>\n<p>You need to sign up to the Blue Rewards scheme for \u00a35 a month, which comes with perks such as cashback on spending, enhanced savings rates and an Apple TV+ subscription.<\/p>\n<p>The switch must include at least two active direct debits. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barclays.co.uk\/current-accounts\/switch-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">terms here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have more money to play with, you can get \u00a3400 by switching to a premier current account with Barclays and depositing \u00a34,000 within 30 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for premier banking, you need to pay in a gross annual income of at least \u00a375,000 or have a total balance of at least \u00a3100,000 in savings with Barclays in eligible investments, or a mix of both.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the premier switch offer are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barclays.co.uk\/current-accounts\/premier-switch-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyds<\/p>\n<p>New and existing customers can get \u00a3200 by switching to a Club Lloyds accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The basic Club Lloyds account has a \u00a35 fee but this is refunded every month you pay in \u00a32,000 or more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like most switches, you need to use the Current Account Switch Service (CASS) to complete the changeover.<\/p>\n<p>You also need to have at least three active direct debits from your old account switched over to Lloyds &#8211; any set up after the change will not count.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read all the T&amp;Cs of the accounts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lloydsbank.com\/current-accounts\/landing\/current-accounts.html?&amp;utm_source=&amp;ds_e=MICROSOFT&amp;utm_medium=paid+search&amp;utm_campaign=UK_Brand_Lloyds_PCA_Current+Account_Exact&amp;utm_term=loyds+bank+current+account&amp;utm_adgroup=UK_Brand_Lloyds_PCA_Current+Account_Exact&amp;msclkid=071537a1f24817e1ad6952a5a1f0a197&amp;gclid=071537a1f24817e1ad6952a5a1f0a197&amp;gclsrc=3p.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TSB\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can get up to \u00a3180 by switching to TSB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get \u00a3150 for switching to a current account, a new Spend &amp; Save or a Spend &amp; Save Plus account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you need to log into the bank&#8217;s app, deposit \u00a31,000 and make five payments with your debit card.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can earn another \u00a330 in cashback in the first three months if you make 20 or more card payments each month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full T&amp;Cs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsb.co.uk\/content\/dam\/tsb-public\/documents\/current-accounts\/switcher-offers\/tsb-current-account-switch-offer-terms-and-conditions12.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NatWest<\/p>\n<p>Switchers can get \u00a3175 when opting for a Select or Reward current account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You need to pay in \u00a31,250 within 60 days of opening the account, and log in to the mobile app to be eligible for the free cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get the \u00a3175 within 30 days of completing those steps.<\/p>\n<p>See the full T&amp;Cs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.natwest.com\/current-accounts\/switch-your-banking-to-natwest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide<\/p>\n<p>You can get \u00a3175 when you switch your main current account to a FlexAccount, FlexDirect or FlexPlus account.<\/p>\n<p>Customers must not have benefited previously from a Nationwide switching offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least two direct debits need to be moved over, a minimum of \u00a31,000 must be paid in and one debit card payment needs to be made within 31 days of the account opening to qualify for the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the full T&amp;Cs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationwide.co.uk\/current-accounts\/switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First Direct\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can get \u00a3175 by switching to its 1st Account using CASS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least two direct debits or standing orders need to be moved over, a minimum of \u00a31,000 must be paid in within 30 days and you&#8217;ll need to log into digital banking, too.<\/p>\n<p>Find the full T&amp;Cs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstdirect.com\/banking\/current-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we know from this morning&#8217;s switching league table (see our 6am post), banks are constantly competing for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}