TreasuryDirect is the official United States government application in which you can buy and keep savings bonds.
To buy a savings bond in TreasuryDirect:
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You can buy an electronic savings bond for any amount from $25 to $10,000 to the penny. For example, you could buy an electronic savings bond for $75.38.
In any one calendar year, you may buy up to $10,000 in Series EE electronic savings bonds AND up to $10,000 in Series I electronic savings bonds for yourself as owner of the bonds. That is in addition to the amount you can spend on buying savings bonds for a child or as gifts.
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Another way to buy savings bonds is to have your employer send money from each paycheck directly to your TreasuryDirect account.
You decide how much to set aside for savings bonds, then it all happens automatically (like getting the rest of your paycheck to your bank by direct deposit.)
You will fill out a direct deposit form that needs this information:
Tell your employer that they can send the money to us in any of these 3 ACH file formats:
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The money your employer sends each time goes into a special Payroll Savings Plan Certificate of Indebtedness (C of I) in your TreasuryDirect account. Every time the balance in that specific C of I is large enough to buy the bond you chose at the amount you chose, we issue you that type of savings bond for that amount.
For example: If you want to buy $50 Series I savings bonds and you ask your employer to send $25 from each paycheck to your TreasuryDirect account, we issue a $50 bond for you after every other payday. You don’t have to think about it again or do anything else. You keep getting more savings bonds automatically until you change or end your Payroll Savings Plan.
Each savings bond earns interest for you in your TreasuryDirect account until you tell us to cash the bond or until it reaches the end of its 30-year interest-earning life.
The only way to get a paper savings bond now is to use your IRS tax refund.
You can buy any amount up to $5,000 in $50 increments.
We may issue multiple bonds to fill your order. The bonds may be of different denominations. We use $50, $100, $200, $500, and $1,000 bonds. Again, the amount of your purchase can be any multiple of $50, from $50 to $5,000. You need to tell us only the amount. We determine denominations.
To buy paper savings bonds, you use IRS Form 8888 to specify how much of your refund should go to savings bonds and how much to you directly (by check or by direct deposit to your bank account).
On Form 8888, you also specify who will own the bonds. That means, you can give paper savings bonds to yourself or to anyone else (as a gift). If you have enough money in your refund, you can buy multiple bonds and, if you wish, you can give them multiple registrations.
You may buy up to $5,000 in paper savings bonds with each year’s tax refund.
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Whether you buy an electronic bond or a paper bond, you must specify who owns the bond.
You may name yourself, a child, yourself and someone else (either as another owner or as the beneficiary), or indeed anyone you want to give the savings bond to as a gift.
But the person (or people) you name must meet these conditions:
You may also register the bond in the name of a trust or estate. An electronic bond in TreasuryDirect also can be in the name of a corporation, partnership, or other entity.
See the note above about using savings bonds for higher education. Whether the bonds are paper or electronic, to use them for college expenses, the bonds must be in an adult’s name, not the child’s!
But with that exception, you can name the child as the owner of either paper or electronic savings bonds.
If you buy paper savings bonds for your child, you have the responsibility for keeping the bonds.
If you buy electronic savings bonds for a child, here’s how that works:
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