Tom Adams

Hi,

Trust registrations in TreasuryDirect are only available when you establish a TreasuryDirect account in the name of the trust. Therefore, you must establish a trust account to accomplish the transfer.

Information regarding trust registrations in TreasuryDirect is shown below.

Trust (trustee of a trust): The registration must identify the trust with specificity; at a minimum, it must include the authority or document creating the trust, the date the document was executed (except in the case of a probated will when the date is not necessary), the name of a trustee of the trust who is authorized to act alone on behalf of the trust with regard to the account, and any information that is necessary to distinguish the trust from any other trust, including the name of the grantor(s). The registration may also include the names of additional trustees and the full name of the trust. If one or more of the trustees are individuals, and the entity account manager is an individual trustee, the entity account manager must be named in the registration. If an organization serving as a trustee of the trust will administer this account, the entity account manager must be a duly-authorized employee of that organization who has the authority to act alone on behalf of the organization in its role as trustee of the trust with regard to the account, and the organization must be named in the registration. In either case, the entity account manager must certify that he or she has the authority to act alone on behalf of the trust with regard to the account.

Registration examples: “John Doe, Trustee under Declaration of Trust dated January 1, 2001, SSN 123-45-6789;” “First National Bank, Trustee under Declaration of Trust dated January 1, 2001, EIN 12-3456789;” “John Doe or Sarah Jones, Trustees under Agreement with Jane Doe dated January 1, 2001, SSN 123-45-6789;” “Sarah Jones, Trustee under the Will of Matthew Smith, deceased, SSN 123-45-6789.” The EIN of the trust or the SSN of the grantor will be used.

The trust form of registration is not available where the trustee is acting on behalf of a federal, state or local government.

However, before we can transfer the securities to your trust account, we will need a copy of the trust.

You must provide one of the following:

A copy of the trust agreement with amendments.
The relevant trust excerpts and amendments.

The copy of the trust must be certified to be a true and correct copy of the original and the following pages must be included:

The page showing the name and date of the trust.
The page(s) identifying the successor trustee(s). If more than one successor trustee is named and each can act independently, submit that portion of the trust.
The signature page.
Any amendments to the trust that may alter the information on the pages submitted or limit the authority of the trustee(s) to request the transaction.

We will also need the attached PD F 5511.

Our mailing address is:

TreasuryDirect
POB 7015
Parkersburg WV 26106-7015

My guess is they will tell you to open another TD account in the name of the trust and then transfer the bonds from your current account to the the trust account. However, a TD account transfer like this is typically a taxable event, while a transfer to a trust is typically not, so you need to ask them exactly how to do it.

And when the transaction is complete, please come back and tell us what you had to do!

Tom Adams

Tom Adams