I have been looking a bit into the payout of the balance of the mature building savings contract and just found the following information on Google:
"Payout of the building savings balance
Sometimes private plans have changed so that there is no longer a desire for a construction project. In this case, the immediate transfer of the building savings balance including the interest earnings takes place. Some building societies also add a bonus for waiving the loan. However, you will have to forgo any housing-related bonuses in this case."
Unfortunately, to me, this sounds like the housing bonus would then be lost.
At the beginning of the long-running building savings contract, there were a few years in which I could apply for this.
Actually, I would of course like to keep it... Is there maybe a trick so that the housing bonus does not expire when the balance is paid out? For one user here, that was the case. I could imagine that this might be related to whether the balance is used for housing purposes or not. My building savings contract is so old that this purpose designation did not exist back then.
Unfortunately, I still have so many ????? :) Please give me a little push. I would be grateful to you.