- Wow the benefit funding
- The benefit funding is definitely a perk
- Well there are different advantages of getting the benefit funding with RBS
- In your benefit package you get your base salary which is not changeable and then you get what's called the value account
- There's so much you can do with it
- You can either take in cash if you don't want to elect any benefits
- Some of it goes on wine
- Then there's a whole range of benefits that you can take
- I've just bought myself a few nice bits of clothes
- One can use it to get cheap flights and holidays
- Vouchers to help with the Christmas shopping
- I put some of my benefit funding towards my pension
- You can buy critical illness cover
- Private medical cover
- Decent rates on hotels
- Private dentist cover
- Took a trip to New York
- Cheap rates on a new bike
- Food vouchers
- I spent a lot of it on shoes
- You could actually get half price on buses
- This year I'm going to buy some more holiday - I'm going to buy 5 extra days' holiday
- Pay down my student debts
- I don't know.. I'm still taking it in full cash
- I also just bought a watch
- Personally I'm just happy to have an additional bit of cash
- I've taken the majority of it in cash
- I take all as salary
- And if you're not satisfied with that you can put it towards buying yourself a company car
- So you are getting more for your money through the RBS benefit funding
- It's a really fantastic service. You get a lot more value than if you bought it with cash that you were paid. And also in some instances you can actually save on tax and national insurance based on the way that it's worked.