Using Treasury Hunt to find forgotten Savings Bonds
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Categorized as: Lost or stolen US Savings Bonds • Inheriting and bequeathing US Savings Bonds
The Treasury has an online system called Treasury Hunt that allows you to search for Savings Bonds that you may have forgotten about or that were lost in the mail.
However, the system has important limits. It contains only:
- most of the $13 billion worth of outstanding stinker bonds - but not the oldest ones
- undeliverable bonds returned by the Post Office since 1996 (at the rate of about 15,000 bonds a year)
- in addition to Savings Bonds, the system includes marketable Treasury securities and interest checks (25,000 a year) returned by the Post Office
If a security is still earning interest and wasn't returned to the Treasury by the Post Office, it won't be in Treasury Hunt, even if you don't know where it is.
If you are the Executor of an estate, it makes sense to enter the decedent's Social Secuity Number in the system to see if anything turns up.
And that's all there is to it. Ready? Here's the link to Treasury Hunt.
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if my grandma died and she had bonds for me with mine and her name on them. now my aunt wont give them to me. Dose she have to or can she spend them or how do i get them back?
How can my husband find out if his parents, who both died in 1991, left any US Savings Bonds no one found when we cleared out their house?
David and Colleen - on this page, scroll up and look on the right for a link that says "Ask the Treasury". Click it and send a note directly to the Savings Bonds team at the Treasury, who will tell you how to get started.
Tom Adams
David you do the same. I encountered a simular problem. The treasury may be able to reissue the bonds to you at another address. Are you of legal age?Sometimes people keep the bonds until you reach a certain age. For example my youngest daughter is too young to hold onto her bonds so they are kept safe until she is of a responsible nature. But again, direct your concerns to the treasury. Best wishes everyone.