this is the last paragraph on the home page cited in the previous post:

AARP Financial Inc. makes available the AARP Financial Savings Center brought to you by Waterfield Financial Services Inc. AARP and AARP Financial Inc. receive fees from Waterfield Financial Services Inc. for AARP's license of its intellectual property and AARP Financial Inc.'s oversight of the AARP Financial Savings Center. All Checking and Money Market Savings deposit products available through the Savings Center are offered by and will be opened and processed through The Huntington National Bank. Certificate of Deposit products and services available through the Savings Center are offered by and available through Reliance Trust Company. Waterfield Financial Services Inc. contracts directly with The Huntington National Bank and Reliance Trust Company. All deposit products are issued by FDIC-insured financial institutions, and are eligible for insurance coverage to the full extent of the law.
AARP Financial Inc., its parent and affiliates have no liability for the products and services provided by The Huntington National Bank, Reliance Trust Company and Waterfield Financial Services Inc. AARP and AARP Financial Inc. have endorsed the services provided through the Savings Center but do not offer these products or services. AARP cannot recommend that you or any specific individual should purchase any particular product or service. AARP Financial Inc. is a registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of AARP.

talljay said:

As a joke, I applied to AARP when I was maybe 35. I simply put down an birthdate that made me 50. I sent in my $12 and they sent me all the cards and crap. I never used it for anything and let it expire after the year was up.

So you basically wasted your money?

Would you send me $12 and you can be a member of my club with no benefits and it will expire after 1 year. I call it the over 50 club, we take anyones money for the entertainment value.

Be sure to read Banking Guy's update in this am's post (May 5th) with new info from the AARP Savings CSRs.

I applied on Saturday and today I received an e-mail notice, Your Jumbo MM Account APPROVED.
First I had to call and get my account number.

There are 2 steps to follow: Step 1, funding the account, which looks easy enough (and free). Step 2: sign and send the Signiture Card.(here is the problem) It says to print the signiture card pdf. There is no pdf included for completion on my machine.

Can someone help me! Please include in an answer.

Any hard pulls reported in opening any of these AARP savings accounts?

Just finished sign up --super easy

Here's the PROMO code for the $20.00 sign up bonus: AA021 --just fill in the promotional code box.

If you aren't an AARP member you can sign up online and pay the $12.50 via CC or, or, or, or you can have it billed to you. If you have it billed the confirmation page won't give you a number and customer service won't give it to you either (they say they don't see one). They told me to reapply and if double billed they would refund. I didn't. When you open the acct there is a box for help in finding your acct number --you plug in a couple of items and it says they found your records. -- rest of application is normal. Since I haven't paid anything and they won't give me a number I'm guessing I can cancel membership as I haven't completed the process. My MMA account is already set up and ready for funding.
Whether you want the hassle for $12.50 is up to you. YMMV

Finally you can't fund through a Huntington Branch as they know nothing about this and are just licensing the FIDC guarantee for AARP. You can push/pull via ach or mail in the $$.

Signed up for the high yield savings + $20 sign-up bonus! Thanks to OP and mamalovesfree for the info. Nice rate & sign-up was easy.

Not sure about this, but I do think the $20 sign-up bonus requires an initial deposit of $500 or more. Can someone confirm?

aptvictoria said:So if you have an account with UFBDirect, you can't sign up for this?
You have to send a request for conversion via UFBDirect BankMail, along with your AARP#.

UncaMikey, this thread is one of those rare treats on Fat Wallet:
A legitimate deal . . . a surprise bonus . . . and humor!

I'm still having a difficult time reconciling the cherished Ramones poster that adorns my hallway . . . with various Led Zepplin apparel, a Fender Strat that needs new strings, and a CD collection that — Dylan Thomas-like — cries out Do Not Go Gently into the Age of (cough) 52. Rock! Rock until the dying of your light!

Or in my case, Marshalls.

I remember many, many decades ago Rolling Stone magazine Photoshopped Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . . . at the age of 60. I thought it was hysterical; now I'm not laughing! Ladies, you'll know you're getting OLD the first time someone addresses you "M'aam." Miss will be missed, and no mistake.

Ride your motorcycles, wind surf, travel abroad . . . do it all you 20-somethings! I'll be head banging to Metallica until I'm 80 dammit and right now I'll be in the bar lol.

TYTBUDGET