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Registering a Savings Bond: Series EE

How you lot annals a savings bond determines who owns the bond and who can cash it. The registration also determines what happens with the bond if the possessor dies.

This page addresses ways individuals can register Serial EE savings bonds.

(Savings bonds also may be owned by entities, such as trusts, estates of deceased persons, living estates [where a courtroom has appointed a guardian for a person, such every bit one who is incompetent], corporations, and partnerships. For data on this, come across "Learn More About Entity Accounts.")

On this page:

Registrations for Individuals
Children under 18
Persons Paying for College Teaching

Registrations for Individuals

Three basic registrations be for individuals.

1 owner	Simply one person is named as owner. But that person may make transactions. If he or she dies, the bond becomes part of his or her estate. For electronic bonds, this is chosen sole ownership. For newspaper bonds, single buying.* Example of registration: JOHN DOE
Possessor and beneficiary	Merely the owner may make transactions. If he or she dies, the beneficiary becomes the only owner. The casher tin't exist an entity. The registration says "PAYABLE ON Death," or "POD." Example of registration: JOHN DOE POD TO JANE DOE
Two owners	Electronic bonds (in TreasuryDirect) The first-named possessor is the main possessor; the second is secondary. The registration uses "WITH." Instance of registration: JOHN DOE SSN 987-65-4321 WITH JANE DOE SSN 123-45-6789.	Paper bonds* Either possessor may cash without cognition or approval of the other; but for most other transactions, both owners must sign. The registration uses "OR." Example of registration: JOHN DOE OR JANE DOE.
	If one possessor dies, the other becomes sole owner. If 1 owner is a person, the other tin can't exist an entity.

Children under eighteen

Adults can buy savings bonds for children nether the historic period of 18 and annals the bonds in the name of a child or children, using a registration to a higher place.

How to buy:

If you are the parent or other developed responsible for the minor'due south support, y'all can prepare for the pocket-size an account that is linked to your TreasuryDirect business relationship. The only style to get to the minor'southward account is through your business relationship. Securities registered in the modest's name tin be bought through or transferred to the pocket-size'south account. Acquire More than About Linked Accounts

Persons Paying for College Pedagogy

If you apply involvement from a Serial EE bond to pay for higher education, y'all may not have to pay federal tax on the interest. You may employ whatsoever of the three basic registrations above nether "Registrations for Individuals," but only within these guidelines:

If you want to use the bond for your education, you must be the owner of the bond.
If you want to use the bail for your child's education, then you or your spouse, or both, must own the bail. Your kid may be a beneficiary only not a co-owner.

*This applies to paper Serial EE bonds we sold in the past. Nosotros no longer sell EE bonds in paper form.

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