Get TreasuryDirect FS 4000 2012

Visit the Treasury Department's TreasuryDirect website to search for uncashed savings bonds in your name. You can enter your social security number or Employee Identification Number (EIN) into the search field on the Treasury Hunt page and click the Search button to see results.

To change names on Savings bonds, and these are likely paper bonds, you'll need to go to www.TreasuryDirect.gov and download (under forms), the request to reissue bonds with a new name. Here is a direct link to that form.

Go to treasurydirect.gov to locate matured savings bonds or missed interest and principal payments from other Treasury securities such as bills or notes. Click on Treasury Hunt under the Individuals tab. Type in your Social Security number to start your search.

Visit Treasury Direct You can check if a bond has been cashed by heading to treasurydirect.gov and loging in. ... After logging in, you'll want to look under the "Individuals" section and click on the link that reads "Check Treasury Hunt to see if you own matured savings bonds."

Remember that savings bonds can't be sold, traded or given away. The person whose name is on the bond is the only person who can cash it in (with some exception, which we'll get to shortly). ... You cash it in via the Treasury Web site, and the funds are deposited into your bank account).

Log in to TreasuryDirect and follow the directions there. The cash amount can be credited to your checking or savings account within two business days of the redemption date. You can cash paper EE and E bonds at most local financial institutions.

If your paper U.S. Savings Bonds are ever lost, stolen or destroyed, you can obtain replacement bonds from the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury keeps records of the paper savings bonds it has issued, and it can search those records to replace your lost bonds.

Transferring Securities. Yes. The owner can transfer EE and I Bonds to another person with a TreasuryDirect account; however, you must wait five business days after the purchase date to transfer the bonds.

Savings Bonds are still popular--and are usually easy to transfer to the beneficiary after the original owner dies. Savings bonds can be transferred to new owners without probate if they were jointly owned or if the owner named a payable-on-death (POD) beneficiary to inherit them.

Remember that savings bonds can't be sold, traded or given away. The person whose name is on the bond is the only person who can cash it in (with some exception, which we'll get to shortly). ... You cash it in via the Treasury Web site, and the funds are deposited into your bank account).

Because things have a way of changing, savings bonds offer the owner of the bond the flexibility to be able to change beneficiaries. The process for making these changes is very simple. Visit the US savings bonds website, and click Enter under the section for individuals.

When you buy savings bonds as gifts, you must hold them in your TreasuryDirect account for at least five business days before you can deliver them to the gift recipient. The five-day hold protects Treasury against loss by ensuring the ACH debit has been successfully completed before the funds can be moved.

If you own a bond solely in your name and want to add a co-owner or beneficiary or change the beneficiary to a co-owner, you must have the bond reissued. To do this, fill out FS Form 4000, available online from TreasuryDirect.

Co-owners on savings bonds have equal rights to hold or redeem the bonds. ... The U.S. Treasury allows a savings bond to have either co-owners or an owner and a beneficiary.

Savings bonds can be transferred to new owners without probate if they were jointly owned or if the owner named a payable-on-death (POD) beneficiary to inherit them. These bonds can be jointly owned, or they can be registered in POD form, but not both; only sole owners can designate a POD beneficiary.