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Citizens Bank is offering $100 account bonus for opening a new checking account with required activitie. If you have a Citizens Bank around you, this is a good deal. I mentioned a  similar deal from Citizens Bank back in October 2009. It seems not difficult to get this bonus.

The details of this promotion can be found at http://www.citizensbank.com/holidayoffer. This promotion ends on 12/15/2009.

How to get the $100 bonus?

• $50 for setting up direct deposit of $50 or more
• $25 for making 5 online bill payments
• $25 for making 5 signature-based debit card or credit card (avoid, hard pull) purchases

To get this bonus, you need to open a checking account from Citizens Bank. It seems that the Green Checking account qualifies for this bonus which features no monthly fees. And the minimum opening balance is $50.

Citizens Bank also has the Green$sense program from which you can earn additional $120 per year. So the total bonus you can get from Citizens Bank is $220. The Green$sense program requires you t make 100 or less debit card purchases, online bill payments or automatic payments per month for 12 months. For each of above mentioned transactions, Citizens Bank pays you 10 cents. The maximum amount you can get is $120 per year or $10 per month.

You can apply online at the promotion page but only zip codes in their marketing area will be accepted. Citizens Bank has branches at Illinois, Indiance, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio.