The Treasury Department can verify who owns unclaimed savings bonds without requiring the original certificate or physical proof.
The Treasury has $26–39 billion in unclaimed savings bonds, but a viral 38% statistic about reassigned Social Security numbers cannot be verified.
Dormant savings bonds are matured U.S. Treasury bonds that have stopped earning interest and remain uncollected by their owners—often because families...
The claim that at least 45% of dormant savings bonds were purchased as gifts and the recipients never knew they existed sounds plausible—and it reflects a...
The figure often cited about unclaimed U.S. savings bonds is closer to $29.7 billion than $2.4 billion—and this massive gap represents one of the largest...
Millions of Americans hold U.S. savings bonds that have stopped earning interest, silently losing purchasing power to inflation every year.