Yes, you can pay your monthly U.S. Cellular phone bill with the Gene Grawe Fund’s Five Back Visa. There is no fee and the payment processes fine with both registered and unregistered Visas. However, you cannot make payments of less than $5.00 and they do mean it.

Several days before your due date each month, logon to the U.S. Cellular website and make your payment using a Five Back Visa debit card. You can also make multiple smaller payments until you’ve paid your bill in full. U.S. Cellular’s website is another one of those great places where you can use up some of your leftover, small-balance Visa debit cards. Or you could donate some of them once in a while. Click here to read our tip on donating the small, remaining balances on prepaid Visa debit cards.

NOTE: If you are setup on Autopay for automatic payments, on your due date you may receive an Autopay email telling you the Autopmt failed because of zero balance. You can just disregard that email if your earlier payments were successful.

UPDATE FEB 2021: They really do mean no payments less than $5. Recently, I tried a different tactic to circumvent the $5 minimum online payment. I thought surely they can’t refuse if the final balance payment is less than $5. So I made several partial payments working my balance to about $2 and it turns out their website doesn’t care. I tried my GGF Visa, my State Street Bank debit card, a regular credit card, and even a debit straight from my checking account and all were refused. So I called U.S. Celullar and tried to make an automated phone payment of less than $5…and nope it wouldn’t take it either. Finally, I called their customer service and the kind gentleman ran my GGF Visa and the $2 payment went through fine. Before I hung up, I promised him I wouldn’t do it again.