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#help.tut EXTRA HELP FOR TUTORIALS
#define.stb ON LINE LEGAL GLOSSARY
/* This is part 1 of the official text of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation's informational booklet on Federal Deposit Insurance.
With banks failing, we thought you'd like to know if you are in
an insured account what your rights are. */
FOREWORD
This booklet provides examples of insurance coverage under
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) regulations on
certain accounts commonly held by depositors in insured banks.
The FDIC is an independent agency of the U.S. Government. It was
established by Congress in 1933 to insure bank deposits and
thereby help maintain sound conditions in our banking system and
protect the nation's money supply in case of bank failure. As a
depositor in an FDlC-insured bank, you do not pay for deposit
insurance protection. Your bank pays for the cost of the
insurance through semiannual assessments based on its volume of
deposits. The deposit insurance fund consists of these
assessments and income from investment of the fund's balances.
FDIC OPERATION
1. Are all financial institutions insured by the FDlC?
The FDlC insures deposits in national and most State banks,
including commercial, savings and mutual savings banks. Deposits
in some U.S. branches of foreign banks also are insured. insured
banks are required to display the official FDlC sign, which
appears on the last page of this booklet, at each teller's window
or station. Most savings and loan associations are insured by the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, another
governmental agency. Insurance for savings in most credit unions
is provided by the National Credit Union Administration.
2. How does the FDlC protect bank depositors against loss?
Each bank approved for deposit insurance must meet high standards
of safety and soundness in its banking practices. Adherence to
these standards is determined through regular bank examinations
by Federal or State agencies. If, despite these precautions, an
insured bank gets into financial difficulties and must be closed
for purposes of liquidation, the FDlC is on hand promptly with
cash to protect insured depositors. The Corporation usually
begins payments to depositors within a few days after the date
of an insured bank's closing.
3. Does the insurance protection afforded by the Corporation
cover losses sustained by depositors in any fashion other than
through the closing of an insured bank?
No.
4. What types of deposits are insured?
All types of deposits received by a bank in its usual course of
business are insured, including savings deposits, checking
deposits, deposits in NOW accounts, Christmas savings and other
open-account time deposits, time certificates of deposit, and
uninvested funds. Certified checks, cashiers' checks, officers'
checks, money orders, drafts, letters of credit and travelers'
checks for which an insured bank is primarily liable also are
insured when issued in exchange for money or its equivalent or
for a charge against a deposit account.
5. Does Federal deposit insurance protect the interests of
creditors or shareholders of a failed bank?
No. Insurance protects only deposits, as described in response to
Question 4.
ACCOUNTS OF A SINGLE HOLDER
6. What is the basic insurance protectIon afforded a depositor?
The basic insured amount for a depositor is $100,000. In
determining the amount of an insured account, accrued or
anticipated interest or earnings is included. Deposits maintained
in different rights or capacities are each separately insured to
$100,000. Thus, a person may hold an interest in more than one
separately insured account in the same insured bank.
7. Is the insurance protection increased by placing one's funds
in two or more of the types deposit accounts, mentioned in
Question 4, in the same bank?
No. Deposit insurance is not increased merely by dividing funds
owned in the same right and capacity among the types of deposits
mentioned in Question 4. For example, checking and savings
accounts owned by the same depositor are added together and
insured up to $100,000.
8. If a depositor has deposit accounts in several different
insured banks, will the deposits be added together for the
purpose of determining insurance coverage?
No. The maximum insurance of $100,000 is applicable to each
insured depositor of each insured bank, without regard to the
deposits in any other insured bank. In the case of a bank having
one or more branches, the main office and all branch offices are
considered as one bank.
JOINT ACCOUNTS
9. If a husband and wife, or any two or more other persons, have,
in addition to the individually owned accounts of each, a valid
joint account in the same insured bank, is each account
separately insured?
Yes. If each of the co-owners has personally signed a valid
account signature card and has a right of withdrawal on the same
basis as the other co-owners, the joint account and each of the
individually owned accounts are separately insured up to the
$100,000 maximum. (The execution of an account signature card is
not required for time certificates of deposit or any other
deposit obligation evidenced by a negotiable instrument, but the
deposit must in fact be jointly owned.) However, the insurance
protection on joint accounts is not increased by rearranging the
names of the owners, changing the style of the names, or by
establishing more than one joint account for the same combination
of owners in the same insured bank. No joint account shall in any
case be entitled to insurance coverage in excess of $100,000.
10. What types of joint accounts may be insured?
Insurance covers joint accounts owned in any manner conforming to
applicable State law,such as joint tenants with a right of
survivorship, tenants by the entireties, tenants in common, or a
deposit owned by a husband and wife as community property in
States recognizing this particular form of joint ownership.
11. Is the answer to question 10 the same if funds in the
individual and joint accounts of husband and wife all consist of
community property?
Yes. In those jurisdictions recognizing community property,
community funds may be maintained in accounts in the individual
names of each spouse and in a joint account in the names of both
and each account is separately insured to $100,000.