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How Cash Rewards Credit Cards Work

A cash reward credit card is great value for money if you can pay off your credit card balance every month and have no real need or requirement for a low interest rate.

Cash reward credit cards have been available now for years and are still extremely popular to this day. Cash rewards credit cards started many years ago by offering the cardholder a flat rate of 1% cash back on every purchase using their cash reward credit card. However, many of the cash rewards credit cards now offer a tiered cash back structure, such as :

  • Earn 5% on groceries purchased from grocery store X.
  • Earn 2% on gas purchased from gas station Y.

Some of the issuing credit card companies have cash rewards credit cards with a flat rate on all pruchases. These means that if you were to spend $100 in a month, you would be rewarded with $1 cash back. However, many of these offers are capped with a monthly spend so that you don't earn too much cash back! Once the cash back you have earned reaches a certain pre-arranged amount you will receive a check in the mail.

When you are looking for a cash rewards credit card you should look for these three points:

  • What percentage of the total amount spent is rewarded as cash back?
  • Do you earn more cash back with purchases from certain stores?
  • How will the cash you have been rewarded with be paid to you?

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