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One Deposit Checking from Citizens®

Open your new account with any amount.

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Choosing the right account for you is simple with Citizens

Now with Citizens Paid Early®, a new feature that lets you get paid sooner - up to 2 days early*.

One Deposit Checking

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Open Account

No minimum balance requirements

Make one deposit of ANY amount per statement period - and we'll waive the monthly maintenance fee

Monthly Maintenance Fee $9.99

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One Deposit Checking + Savings

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Open Account

No minimum balance requirements

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Make at least one deposit of any amount each monthly maintenance fee period to waive the $4.99 fee2

Features and Benefits

Easy Ways to Pay

Use your contactless debit card, Digital Wallet, Zelle®3 or checks

Overdraft Solutions⁴

Take control of overdrafts with Overdraft Choices®, plus $5 Overdraft Pass®5 and Citizens Peace of Mind®6

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Citizens Paid Early®

Get paid up to 2 days early when you have direct deposit.* No need to sign up and it's absolutely free. This new feature gives you earlier access to your cash, helps avoid the stress of overdrafts and provides a head start on paying bills.

It's being added to all Citizens personal checking, savings and money market accounts.

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Citizens Peace of Mind®

Mistakes happen — we know; we're people too! So, we added Citizens Peace of Mind6 to your checking account to help you avoid the costs of unexpected overdrafts.

Citizens Peace of Mind gives you additional time to fund your account and reverse overdraft fees. It's free, and there's nothing you need to do to enroll!

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Download our mobile app7

  • Deposit checks and transfer funds
  • Pay bills and add billers
  • Easily freeze and unfreeze your debit card
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Safe and secure

Make purchases safely and be on your way. Your account is protected by 24/7 monitoring with fraud alerts and Zero Liability coverage.8

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Put your one deposit on auto pilot with direct deposit

You can set up direct deposit easily through the mobile app or online banking. Your employer may also provide a form for you to fill out, in which case you will need your checking account number and bank routing number, which can be found in the mobile app, via online banking, or at the bottom of a check.

More Things You Can Do

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Pay less on loans

Many of our loans, including student loans9, offer discounts if you make automatic payments from your checking account.

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Checking FAQs

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* If you are a Citizens Personal Checking, Savings or Money Market account customer that has set up a direct deposit with a payor, you may be able to get that direct deposit up to two days early with Citizens Paid Early®. Whether a direct deposit is eligible for Paid Early is at our discretion and we cannot guarantee that you will always receive the Paid Early service. 

1 Annual Percentage Yield. Rates accurate as of #Json=Label_Lookup|Brand=citizensbank|TargetElementType=span|TargetElementId=|Key=currentDate# and subject to change before or after account opening. ( #Json=Label_Lookup|Brand=citizensbank|TargetElementType=span|TargetElementId=|Key=Region Label#). Rates apply to new accounts and may not apply to existing accounts. CD rates may be dependent upon checking relationship; Citizens Quest® rates require Citizens Quest Checking; Citizens Private Client® rates require Citizens Private Client® Checking.

2 You may also maintain a $200 minimum daily balance to waive the monthly maintenance fee. Account will automatically receive a waiver on the first 4 monthly maintenance fees. Fee is not assessed when any signer is under 25 or 65 or older.

3 U.S. checking or savings account required to use Zelle®. Transactions between enrolled consumers typically occur in minutes and generally do not incur transaction fees. Data charges may apply.

4 IMPORTANT DETAILS ON OVERDRAFT COVERAGE: When we pay a transaction that overdraws your account, we will charge you an Overdraft Fee of $35 per item paid. When we return a check or ACH transaction unpaid because your account had insufficient funds, we will not charge you a fee. We will limit to 5 the number of Overdraft Fees charged on any one business day, up to a total of $175. Once you have overdrawn your account, you must bring it to a positive balance as soon as possible. Whether your overdrafts will be paid is discretionary and we reserve the right not to pay. For example, we typically do not pay overdrafts if your account is not in good standing or if the overdraft amount is excessive.

5 No Overdraft Fee will be charged on any overdraft item of $5 or less, including ATM and debit card overdrafts if you are enrolled in Debit Card Overdraft Coverage, or when your account is overdrawn and the total overdrawn amount at the end of the same business day is $5 or less.

6 Citizens Peace of Mind®: Citizens Peace of Mind provides additional time to bring your account to a positive available balance and reverse Overdraft Fees. If your account is overdrawn, you have up until 10:00 PM ET the following business day (e.g., if your account is overdrawn at the end of the day Monday, you have until 10:00 PM ET Tuesday) to deposit enough funds to cover all of the overdraft items (minus the fees), and any additional transactions that post to the account that day. If the available balance, excluding the overdraft fees, is positive (greater than or equal to $0) at the end of the following business day, any overdraft fees will be reversed. When determining the amount you need to deposit to take advantage of Citizens Peace of Mind, you can check your balance in the Citizens mobile app or Online Banking and then consider transactions that may post to your account that day - such as checks or other debits. As we do not see these transactions until they are presented for payments, only you know what transactions may post to your account and how much you need to deposit. A deposit that only partially covers transactions or overdraft items will not result in a fee reversal. All deposits are subject to our Funds Availability schedule. This schedule helps you determine when a deposit you make will increase your available balance. For example, some deposits types such as checks drawn on a bank other than Citizens, even if made by 10:00 PM ET the next business day, are not available to cover transactions that day. But a deposit of cash, a Citizens check, or an electronic funds transfer will generally be available to cover the transactions. For information on our Funds Availability Policy, please visit citizensbank.com/overdraft or see your Personal Deposit Account Agreement. Citizens Peace of Mind is available on personal checking accounts. If your account has a linked overdraft transfer plan, these plan transfers will apply before Peace of Mind. Any applicable plan transfer fees are not eligible for Peace of Mind rebates.

7 Wireless carrier, text and/or data charges may apply.

8 Citizens Zero Liability policy covers U.S.-issued cards only. Does not apply to ATM transactions, PIN transactions not processed by Mastercard, or certain commercial card transactions. Individual provisional credit amounts are provided on a provisional basis and may be withheld, delayed, limited, or rescinded by your issuer based on factors such as gross negligence or fraud, delay in reporting authorized use, investigation and verification of claim and account standing and history. Cardholder must notify Citizens immediately of any unauthorized use. Transaction at issue must be posted to your account before provisional credit may be issued. For additional information, please visit our Citizens Zero Liability page.

9 Automatic Payment Discount Disclosure: Borrowers will be eligible to receive a 0.25 percentage point interest rate reduction on their student loans owned by Citizens Bank, N.A. during such time as payments are required to be made and our loan servicer is authorized to automatically deduct payments each month from any bank account the borrower designates. Discount is not available when payments are not due, such as during forbearance. If our loan servicer is unable to successfully withdraw the automatic deductions from the designated account three or more times within any 12-month period, the borrower will no longer be eligible for this discount.

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