Nationwide could offer free £100 for next two years – check if you’re eligible

could pay out another £100 bonus to customers this year as part of its Fairer Share payment scheme. The building society has made the payment to customers who qualify for the past two years, handing out £385million to 3.85million members in 2024, and £344million to 3.4million members the year before that, as per .

And while hasn’t yet confirmed that the scheme will come back, it says on its it wants to repeat it this year. However, it adds that a decision “will be made in May, when we publish our results for the 2024/25 financial year”. The payment aims to .

An article by in February , though its unknown whether the criteria would remain the same if it returned this year.

The scheme is typically announced paid out in June, and previously customers have needed to have a current account plus either qualifying savings or a by 31 March 2024, as per the outlet.

Most payments were then received between June 13 and 28 last year. MSE advises keeping accounts open until at least March 31.

It also recommends using your current account within the first three months of the year, but said for this step “what you’ll need to do to qualify depends on which current account you have”.

Those with a FlexAccount, FlexBasic, FlexDirect are advised to either pay in at least £500 in two of the first three months of 2025 and make two payments out of their accounts, or make 10 or more payments out of their accounts over this same time period.

says that the second method was used as criteria last year but not in 2023.

“For those with a FlexPlus packaged account: Just paying the fee counts,” the site added. “For those with a FlexOne, FlexGraduate, FlexStudent account: Make a payment IN or OUT of your account in March 2025. Payments can include debit card transactions, Direct Debits, bank transfers and standing orders (but not transfers to other Nationwide accounts you have).”