Freebies don't last forever.
As soon as it became known that Sovcombank was buying Vostochny Bank, the deterioration of cashback conditions was only a matter of time. From July 1, 2021, cashback for paying for housing and communal services will cease to be given.
June 9th appeared on the Vostochny website PDF, from the text of which little can be understood.
There is one more PDF, from which it is already clear that the program "Teplo" no longer has housing and communal services, only pharmacies and transport.
The condition for receiving cashback from Vostochny is spending at least 10,000 rubles per month in bonus categories. I think that few people spend 10 thousand a month on pharmacies and transport.
However, it is possible that the new conditions will suit someone (for example, switch the category to "All inclusive" and receive 2% on all purchases subject to spending from 10 thousand per month).
Now there is only one card that gives 5% to pay for housing and communal services - this is a free MyLife debit of the UBRD bank. But on it they give only up to 500 rubles of cashback per month (spending on housing and communal services 10,000 rubles) and to get this cashback you need to spend at least 5,000 rubles in other categories where cashback is 1%. I doubt that for the sake of 500 rubles it is worth messing around with this.
Another crooked way to get at least some kind of cashback when paying for housing and communal services is to replenish the MTS phone from the Ozone card (1%) and pay for housing and communal services from the MTS account through payment.mts.ru (another 1%).
I know that only a few pay for utilities with cashback, but I hope you pay for utilities at least without commission. :)
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