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You can purchase a savings bond at ________.

Your city or town hall

TreasuryDirect

Your bank or credit union

Your state capitol

TreasuryDirect. You can buy a savings bond online at this location.

If you lose a savings bond, which of the following documents is the least likely to help you replace it?

Your library card

Your Social Security card

Your record of the savings bond's serial number

Your record of the savings bond's issuance date

Your library card. If you lose your savings bond, the government will often replace it if you can provide the serial number, issuance date, address, and Social Security number of the owner.

If you invested in a Series EE bond in 1998, you can keep your initial investment earning interest in a tax-sheltered bond until ______.

2028

2030

2048

2058

2028. Your Series EE bond will earn interest for 30 years.

Jan owns $3,300 worth of series EE bonds that will mature soon. She can _______.

Exchange them for four $1,000 series HH bonds and one $500 HH bond at face value

Exchange them for three $1,000 series HH bonds at face value and $300 cash

Exchange them for three $1,000 series HH bonds at face value with an additional payment of $300

Redeem her bonds, but she can no longer exchange them for Series HH bonds

Redeem her bonds, but she can no longer exchange them for Series HH bonds. Series HH bonds have not been available for sale or exchange since 2004.

A friend mentions that his savings bonds are based on the rate of Treasury securities. Your friend owns _______.

Series E bonds

Series EE bonds

Series HH bonds

Series I bonds

Series EE bonds. Series EE bonds pay 90 percent of the six-month average yield on five-year Treasury securities.

You can still purchase series HH savings bonds.

True

False

False. You can no longer purchase series HH bonds.