Halifax Building Society savings rates

If your savings card allows cash withdrawals abroad, we'll charge a non-sterling transaction fee of 2.99% of the amount of the withdrawal and a non-sterling cash fee of 1.5% of the amount of each withdrawal with a minimum charge of £1.50. Alternatively if you choose to complete your cash withdrawal using the cash machine providers conversion rate to sterling, we will only charge a foreign cash fee of 1.5% of the amount of each withdrawal with a minimum charge of £1.50. The provider of the foreign currency may make a separate charge for conversion. Please note there is no maximum non-sterling cash fee or foreign cash fee.

Cash machines in the UK

We don’t charge you for taking money out of an Everyday Saver, Reward Saver, Young Saver, Liquid Gold, Guaranteed Saver, Web Saver variable with card or Instant Saver account at a Halifax LINK cash machine. Please note that if you make a withdrawal using a non-Halifax cash machine, the bank or building society who own the cash machine may charge you. The amount of any charge will be taken out of your account.

CHAPS fee

If you ask us to transfer money electronically from your account to another UK account using the CHAPS system we’ll charge you a fee of £25.

Copy statements

If you request a copy of a statement that has previously been issued to you, you may be charged a fee of £5 for each request. You won’t be charged this fee if you have a passbook or use online banking and are registered for paper-free statements or if you haven’t previously been sent the statement.

Foreign currency, travellers cheques and cross-border transfers

You may ask us to use a number of special services relating to foreign currency, travellers cheques and the telegraphic transfer of money abroad. Ask at any of our branches for detail.

International payments into your account

The amount you pay will be calculated after we’ve converted the money into sterling.
We’ll do this on the day we pay it into your account.

International payments out of your account

We charge £9.50 for international payments using Online Banking, in branch or Telephone Banking.

Overdrawn accounts

You shouldn’t allow your savings account to become overdrawn. If this does happen we won’t currently charge you any interest, but you should repay your overdrawn balance immediately.

Special presentation

You may ask us to specially present a cheque for a fee of £10.

Withdrawal by banker’s draft

You cannot withdraw any amount less than £500 from your savings account by banker’s draft.

Withdrawals

You can usually withdraw up to the normal daily cash limit of £2, 500 a day per account from any of our branches, or up to £250, 000 by counter cheque, subject to account conditions. If you want to withdraw more than these amounts in cash or by cheque, just let your branch know in advance.