Good morning everyone, greetings from Maui. I just wanted to share a little trick I learned recently regarding my US Bank Cash Plus (Cash+) Credit Card. On my recent credit card statement, I saw 3 different line items for “Rewards Dollars Earned” (aka cash back), but I wanted to get a little more information regarding which transactions qualified for bonus cash back.
As a reminder, US Bank allows you to select two 5% cash back categories and one 2% cash back category every quarter. For Q3 (July, August, & September), I selected Fast Food and Movie Theaters for my 5% categories and Restaurants for my 2% category. For Q4 (October, November, & December), I selected Fast Food and Electronics Stores for my 5% categories and Restaurants for my 2% category. I wanted to see which purchases counted as restaurants (2% cash back) vs. fast food (5% cash back). If you selected different categories, you can follow the same steps below to identify qualifying purchases for your bonus categories.

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