Premium Plan

The Premium Plan is a great fit if you bank often, both at home and when you travel. You get unlimited monthly transactions online, by telephone, at a branch and at BMO ABMs. In addition, you can withdraw money from non-BMO ABM machines without paying extra fees from BMO. You also get free cheques, free money orders and drafts and a safety deposit box rebate.

You can simplify your banking by putting all your accounts – including chequing, savings and joint accounts – under your Premium Plan, all for just one monthly fee¹. BMO is the only bank to offer this money-saving feature.

The monthly Premium Plan fee is waived if a minimum monthly balance of $5,000 is maintained in a Primary Chequing account (when it is designated as the lead (main) account for your Banking Plan).

Monthly Plan Fee: $25.00

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• Unlimited monthly transactions (including account history inquiries).
• 10 debit transactions per month using non-BMO ABM on the INTERAC^®* network².
• 2 INTERAC Email Money Transfers per month².
• Cheque image return option³.
• Assisted-service bill payment at no extra charge.
• You can collect up to 40 AIR MILES reward miles per month with your debit card. Find out more.

• Overdraft Transfer Service between personal accounts in the Banking Plan to cover overdraft at no extra charge.
• Overdraft protection⁴ up to $50 U.S. on U.S. dollar chequing accounts in good standing.
• Personal Credit Reserve⁴ (up to $2,500) with no monthly fee or per item fee⁵.

• To help you save money, we are the only bank to offer no-fee, traditional-style, single signature travellers cheques.
• International: 5 monthly debit transactions using non-BMO ABMs on the Cirrus^®* Network.
• International: 5 monthly Direct Payment purchases at merchants using Maestro^®# service.
• Preferred exchange rate when buying or selling U.S. cash (up to $5,000 U.S. per transaction).
• U.S. dollar bill payments or transfers to U.S. financial institutions through telephone banking service⁶.

• Personalized cheques at no extra charge (cheque style limited).
• Money orders and drafts (in available currencies), certified cheques and stop payments.
• Safety deposit box annual $12 discount (subject to availability – one box per Banking Plan).
• Multiple Canadian or U.S. dollar personal accounts, including accounts held jointly with, or individually by, your spouse, are covered by one monthly Banking Plan fee¹ (all accounts covered by the Banking Plan are subject to the Plan’s monthly transaction limit where applicable).
• Your Banking Plan must have a lead (main) account (Canadian or U.S. dollar) from which the monthly Banking Plan fee and transaction fees that exceed the monthly transaction limit will be debited⁷.
• The monthly Banking Plan fee can be waived by maintaining a specified minimum monthly balance at all times in your Primary Chequing account (when it has been designated as the lead (main) account for your Banking Plan).
• When your Banking Plan’s monthly transaction limits are exceeded, additional fees will apply on a per-item basis.
• You can link your BMO InvestorLine^®** AccountLink^® account and/or your BMO Nesbitt Burns^®‡ Access Service personal account to your existing Everyday Banking Plan. Debit transactions and account history inquiries completed through these accounts will be included in your monthly transaction limit.
• Start turning your banking into AIR MILES reward miles. Find out how fast your reward miles can add up.

How you can save:

• If you’re under 21, you qualify for an $8.50 discount on the Premium Plan.
• If you’re a student who’s 21 or older, you qualify for an $8.50 discount. And to help you make the transition from student to the working world, BMO Bank of Montreal provides recent graduates with an extra 12 months of free banking.
• If you’re 60 or older, you qualify for a $13.95 discount. The Senior Discount Program includes unlimited transactions through any BMO channel. You will also receive the added protection of Overdraft Transfer Service⁸.

To qualify for any of our free banking special discount programs, you must register in a BMO Bank of Montreal branch by providing proof of age. For the Student Discount Program, annual proof of full-time registration in a post-secondary university, college or registered private vocational school is also required.

Youth Discount Program: Beginning June 1, 2006, customers in the Instabanking Plan with the Youth Discount Program will be automatically converted at age 16 to the Plus Plan with the Young Adult Discount Program. Customers in the Standard Plan with the Youth Discount Program will be automatically converted at age 16 to the Performance Plan with the Young Adult Discount Program. Customers in any of the Basic (Practical), Initial (Plus), i.connect, Enhanced or Unlimited (Premium) Plans with the Youth Discount Program can remain in their respective Plans when they enter into the Young Adult Discount Program at age 16.

Effective November 1, 2009, customers with the following Everyday Banking Plans were automatically moved to the new Senior Plan: Performance, Plus or Practical Plans each with the senior discount; discontinued i.connect, Enhanced, Standard or Instabanking Plans each with senior discount; discontinued Senior Plan; discontinued Enhanced Plan for Seniors. Customers with the current Premium Plan with senior discount were not affected by these changes. When you turn 60, we will automatically switch you to the Senior Plan from the Performance, Plus and Practical Plan and the discontinued Plans i.connect, Enhanced, Standard, Instabanking. Premium Plan customers will remain in the Premium Plan but will receive the senior discount ($13.95 discount on monthly plan fee).

¹Up to 20 Primary Chequing, Interest Chequing (for existing customers only) or Premium Rate Savings accounts are eligible to be opened under the Banking Plan of your choice for one monthly fee, subject to the Banking Plan’s monthly transaction limits.
²Included in Monthly Transaction Limit.
³Cheques made payable to yourself or to cash, and cashed at any branch, may not be returned but are described on your statement.
⁴Available to qualified customers; prevailing rates of interest apply.
⁵No per item fee charged provided you are within your approved Personal Credit Reserve limit.
⁶To transfer funds you must register each account and financial institution to which you wish to transfer funds.
⁷U.S. dollar Plan and transaction fees are charged in U.S. dollars.
⁸Available to qualified customers.


^®**Registered trade-mark of Bank of Montreal, used under licence. Member CIPF.
^®‡Nesbitt Burns is a registered trade-mark of BMO Nesbitt Burns Corporation Limited, used under licence.