[Targeted] Chase Cards: Get 5% Back on Bill Payments for Insurance, Utilities, Phone Service, Cable (Max $100 Cashback)

See an updated post here with all the various offers on Chase cards. 

The Offer

Check if you are eligible here | Specific landing pages: Freedom, Hyatt, United, Marriott

Chase is sending out a spend offer to select users:

• Earn 5% Back on up to $2,000 in purchases when you pay select bills between July 1 and September 30, 2019.

Included Categories: Internet, Cable, and Phone Service; Utilities; Insurance.

The Fine Print

• To be eligible for this offer, you must log on to the website referenced in this offer and enroll by 09/30/19, 11:59 p.m. EST.
• Must activate offer first.
• For a purchase to qualify for this offer, the merchant must submit charges to your credit card by the last day of the promotional period 04/15/19.
• All of your eligible purchases during the promotional period will be automatically counted, as long as you have enrolled by 03/31/2019.
• Please allow up to 8 weeks after qualifying purchases post to your account for 5% Back to post to your account.
• To be eligible for this offer, your account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment.
• Rewards Categories: Internet, Cable, and Phone Service category merchants provide internet, cable, satellite television, radio, cellular, wireless data, and landline services.
• In addition, if you purchase or pay for your internet, cable and satellite television, phone or related services in a merchant’s store that is not registered by the merchant in the applicable services category, the purchase or payment will not qualify; for example, phone bill payments in a merchant’s store that register to Chase as a telephone equipment store.
• Utility category merchants provide electric, household fuel, water, and sanitation.
• Please note that purchases of equipment and some merchants that sell utility-related goods and services are not included; for example, electronics or other retail stores and merchants offering maintenance and cleaning services.
• Insurance category merchants provide health, automobile, homeowners, medical, and life insurance.
• What determines whether a merchant falls into a category? Merchants who accept Visa/MasterCard credit cards are assigned a merchant code, which is determined by the merchant or its processor in accordance with Visa/MasterCard procedures based on the kinds of products and services they primarily sell. We group similar merchant codes into categories for purposes of making offers to you.
• Please note: We make every effort to include all relevant merchant codes in our categories. However, even though a merchant or some of the items that it sells may appear to fit within a category, the merchant may not have a merchant code in that category. When this occurs, purchases with that merchant won’t qualify for offers on purchases in that category.
• Purchases submitted by you, an authorized user, or the merchant through third-party payment accounts, mobile or wireless card readers, online or mobile digital wallets, or similar technology will not qualify in a category if the technology is not set up to process the purchase in that category.
• This promotional offer is non-transferable. For more information about your rewards program, see your Rewards Program Agreement.

Our Verdict

We’ve seen similar offers before, looks like a new round went out for July – September. If anyone finds links for other cards besides Freedom Unlimited, let us know and we’ll add it in.

For those with an INK card who already get bonus rewards on the Phone and Cable categories, it’s probably the Insurance and Utilities categories which you’ll want to target to see if you can max this out. Consider paying out your utilities and insurances (car, health, life, etc) for the rest of the year at this 5% cashback rate. Worth doing a small test first to make sure it codes properly. (Plastiq payments weren’t working according to data points from a previous offer.)

I assume anyone eligible would have received an email about it, but can’t hurt to check at the link above, regardless.

Hat tip to reader SA