I am hoping someone out there (Harvey) can answer this question or point me in the right direction.
Savings bonds (those things you got as a kid instead of money that took like 20 years to mature) is there a way to track down how many are in your name?
I ask because it looks like someone in my family, whose name was also on the bonds cashed them in and are now telling I never had any. But I know I did, I remember getting them for birthday, communion and the such.
Posted by Quality Weenie at March 2, 2006 12:56 PM | TrackBackMan! That sucks! Sounds like something my sister would do. There probably is a way, because they get registered in your name and social security number. But, if someone else was on them too, then they may have been registered with that person's social security number.
Posted by: oddybobo at March 2, 2006 02:30 PMNot completely sure, but based on what I see at the US Bureau of Public Debt, everything is tracked based on serial numbers. I'm betting you don't remember those...
You could, however, try form PD F 1048:
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/forms/sav1048.pdf
It's used for claiming lost or stolen bonds and the instructions say that if you don't know the serial numbers, you can put "unknown" there -- if you provide enough other information (name, ssn, amount, approximate date of issue) -- they should be able to find the bond. If it's been cashed, they'll probably tell you that they can't re-issue it because it's been cashed...
Or you could just call them -- go to http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/savfrb.htm and put in your zip code and they'll give you a phone number.
Posted by: Ogre at March 2, 2006 02:34 PMLooks like Ogre Googled the same page I did:
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/sbfaqcs2.htm
Posted by: Harvey at March 4, 2006 09:10 PM