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Savings Bonds
Today’s Rates
This includes a fixed rate of 1.30%
For I bonds issued May 1, 2024 to October 31, 2024.
Issued 06/17/2024. Price per $100: 103.664251. CUSIP 912810UA4.
Issued 06/17/2024. Price per $100: 99.492212. CUSIP 91282CKQ3.
Special Announcements for TreasuryDirect account holders:
1099 tax forms for TreasuryDirect are available now. See our 1099 information.
Heavy volume is slowing our response time to cases sent by mail.
You can call us from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, at 844-284-2676.
The following transactions require at least 4 weeks of processing time and also require that the bonds and/or TreasuryDirect accounts are in your name.
- Cashing paper Series EE or paper Series I savings bonds where you are named on the bonds and you send in the bonds with your request
- Unlocking your TreasuryDirect account or updating your banking information within that account
- Converting your paper savings bonds into electronic format (in a TreasuryDirect account)
Cashing a Series HH savings bond where you are named on the bond and you send it in requires at least 3 months of processing time.
All other requests may require 6 months or more to process.
The annual purchase limit for Series I savings bonds in TreasuryDirect is $10,000.
Check out our new savings bond explainer page
Latest News
June 2024
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Mississippi Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Launches Interactive Guide to Savings Bonds
- Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for May 2024
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Arkansas Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
May 2024
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Iowa Affected by Severe Storms; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in West Virginia Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Kentucky Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, Landslides and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Texas Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Massachusetts Affected by Severe Storms and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Iowa Affected by Severe Storms and Tornadoes; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Nebraska Affected by Severe Storms, Straight Line Winds, and Tornadoes; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for April 2024
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Oklahoma Affected by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Ohio Affected by Tornadoes; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Announces New Savings Bonds Rates, Series I to Earn 4.28%, Series EE to Earn 2.70%
April 2024
March 2024
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Rhode Island Affected by Severe Storms and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Maine Affected by Severe Storms and Flooding; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Aids Savings Bonds Owners in Alaska Affected by Severe Storm, Landslides, and Mudslides; One-year minimum holding period waived
- Fiscal Service Announces Activity for Securities in the STRIPS Program for February 2024
- Treasury has published an updated rule governing State and Local Government Series Securities
