Finding out the giver of a Savings Bond
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
Categorized as: Savings Bonds as gifts and prizes
I received a saving bond as a gift. How can I find out the person or persons who gave me the gift?
Tom's response
I receive this question frequently, but the Treasury doesn't have a system that has that information.
Is the Social Security Number on the Savings Bond yours? If so, that limits the giver to someone who knows your SSN.
If it's not yours, it's the SSN of the giver, which might give you something to go on.
Ask around; someone will take credit.
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What if your child has been gifted savings bonds, but they may have been mailed to the person who purchased them(not to the child's address)or the parent is not even aware of them at all? Additionally, what if the gifter(and not the parent)is listed as a co-owner or POD on the child's bonds they did receive?
We have been using food assistance since my husband was layed off, but now they are asking about children's savings bonds and values. We believe we may not know of all bonds that could have been issued in our child's name, because they were not mailed to our address, or may have been bought without our knowledge. I am assuming that the agency has access to this information that we may not. How do we find out? Will we be held accountable for bonds bought in our child's name but not mailed to us, or that we were not told of by the buyer?
Sorry for so many questions.
Leigh - follow the process on my page about getting a list of your Savings Bonds. When you send the letter, include the names and Social Security Numbers of everyone in your family.
The list you get back is the same one the food assistance folks can get, so it gives you a place to start.
Note that it's still possible for someone to have gifted your child a Savings Bond without using the child's SSN. Gift givers are allowed to use their own SSN when buying gift bonds. So if that happened, those bonds wouldn't be on this list. But those bonds aren't part of your current problem with the food assistance request, either.
Tom Adams