Monthly fee
$4
−$48 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.
WaFd Bank · Checking account
WaFd Fresh Start (Bank On Certified) Account
−$48 a year for an everyday customer. $4 a month. $25 to open.
- A year, everyday customer
- −$48
- Monthly fee
- Receipt · Monthly feeChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer document · wafdbank.com · PDF
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
- To open
- Receipt · Minimum to openChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer document · wafdbank.com · PDF
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
Against the market
How it ranks
#486of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer
All 1043 checking accounts, rankedFeatures
- Bill pay
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In the bank’s words
Terms
Fees
- Monthly fee
- $4 a monthwafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Minimum to open
- $25wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Overdraft fee
- $30wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Returned item (NSF) fee
- $30wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Overdraft transfer fee
- Nonewafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Most overdraft fees in a day
- 3wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Foreign transaction fee (debit card)
- 1%wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Incoming domestic wire
- $15wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Outgoing domestic wire
- $30wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Incoming international wire
- $15wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Outgoing international wire
- $50wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Inactivity fee
- $5wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Cashier’s check
- $8wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Stop payment
- $30wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Card replacement
- $5wafdbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
FDIC-insured, up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category: FDIC BankFind.
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