Savings Bond Advisor archive for January, 2006

The current 6.73% rate on Series I bonds has created so much new interest in Savings Bonds that the rate of new investments has more than doubled.

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At the end of a column on the consumer debt burden in the U.S., John Wasik, author of The Kitchen-Table Investor and Bloomberg.com columnist, recommends I bonds.

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The long relationship between Pittsburgh and Savings Bonds was the topic of A special bond, by Thomas Olson, which ran in the business section of the Pittsburgh Tribune yesterday.

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Yesterday, I told you about A special bond, an article that ran in the Pittsburgh Tribune Sunday. The article included an interesting quote from Steve Meyerhardt, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Public Debt, on the role of Savings Bond payroll savings plans.

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I own U.S. Savings Bonds that I'd like to redeem, but I don't live in the U.S. What do I do?

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Personal finance columnist and author Scott Burns reaffirmed why he likes Series I Savings Bonds this week in his column, As misunderstood deals go, I Savings Bond one of best.

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I have EE bonds from 1992 and 1993. I'm thinking about converting them into HH bonds. Do they still have those? I'd like to collect the interest from the bonds.

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I am recently divorced and we agreed to divide our EE bonds equally. This is included in the divorce decree also. My name and SSN are on the bonds and my wife is listed as co-owner. How do we divide the bonds to ensure that the person cashing the bonds is responsible for the tax liability since my SSN is on all the bonds? And should I have my half reissued to remove my ex-wife's name?

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If a Savings Bond has the social security number of the owner but is cashed by the co-owner, who is responsible for the income taxes on the interest?

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