With effect from 1st Dec 2016, the feature for BOC Smartsaver will be revised to be much worse in my view. Right off the bat, the usually $500 credit card spending will be nerfed to 0.8%(of the 60k). You can however spend $1,500 on it to get 1.6%. Those who do a lot of groceries shopping can consider buying $1,000 - $1,500 of ntuc shopping vouchers every month, spend and keep the rest to still be able to qualify for the 1.6%. Those who usually only spend $500 per month will be very upset due to the drastic reduction to 0.8% interest. One work around I can think of now is to buy $1.5k ntuc voucher using Family card and sell all via carousell at 4% disc to meet the spending requirement. One important thing to note, the AXS payment transactions are no more ......