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The Chase Freedom® Visa and Chase Freedom® MasterCard offer 5 points per dollar in a rotating set of categories which change each quarter.

That’s 5% cash back if all you have is a no annual fee Freedom card.

Or if you have a Chase card that earns Ultimate Rewards like Chase Sapphire PreferredSM , Ink Plus® Business Card or Ink Bold® Business Card, you can move your points earned via Freedom over to an account with one of those cards — and then transfer the points that had been earned via Chase Freedom over to United, Korean Airlines, British Airways, Southwest, Amtrak, Hyatt, Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, or Priority Club.

So for all intents and purposes you earn 5 transferrable miles per dollar, up to $1500 per quarter in spending, in a variety of categories.

Which means you can earn 7500 points each quarter instead of 1500, an incremental 6000 points per quarter means an extra 24,000 points per year.

Chase announced the 2013 categories for 5x points on its Facebook page.

  • January – March: Gas stations, Drugstores, Starbucks
  • April – June: Restaurants, Movie theaters
  • July – September: Gas stations, Theme parks, Kohl’s
  • October – December: Select department stores, Amazon.com

You have to activate these bonuses each quarter — activation for the first quarter of 2013 begins December 15.

(Note that I receive referral credit from Chase if you choose to use my links above and are approved for a card. And hat tip for that the info was up on Chase’s Facebook page goes to The #Hustle Blog.)

3 Comments

  1. redcat255 said,

    5% at drug stores? I smell a very small-scale revival of the Office Depot Vanilla Reload extravaganza.

  2. Chris said,

    I’m surprised that grocery stores are not included in any of the quarterly promos.

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