SBI Senior Citizen FD Interest Rates: Know how Rs 5 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, and Rs 15 lakh investments will give in maturity in Amrit Vrishti, 1-, 3-, and 5-year fixed deposit schemes
Latest SBI Senior Citizen FD Rates: State Bank of India (SBI) offers special fixed deposit (FD) schemes such as Amrit Vrishti, Amrit Kalash, Green Rupee Deposit. Among traditional FDs, it runs 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year FDs.
SBI Senior Citizen FD Rate: Retirement is a stage where senior citizens need money and where they prefer investment with the least risk. That's why a lot of them prefer investing in fixed deposit schemes (FDs). In this type of investment, they get guaranteed return. So based on their requirements, they can calculate their post-retirement expenses and invest money according to that. Banks offer extra interest rates to senior citizens compared to what they offer to general citizens. The standard rule is that senior citizen investors can get the return amount on maturity, but if they want, they can opt for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly withdrawals.
As far as State Bank of India (SBI) is concerned, among all its FDs, the lender offers its highest interest rate to senior citizens in the Amrit Vrishti special FD. The 444-day FD offers 7.75 per cent interest rate to senior citizens. Interest rates in SBI's 1-, 3-, and 5-year senior citizen FDs are 7.30 per cent, 7.25 per cent, and 7.50 per cent, respectively. (Data as per Paisabazaar.com). In this write-up, know what will be maturity amounts for senior citizens if they invest Rs 5 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, and Rs 15 lakh in the SBI Amrit Vrishti, 1-, 3-, and 5-year FDs.
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