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The standard deposit insurance coverage limit, as offered at banks that are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), is $250,000 per depositor, per bank, per ownership category.
The standard FDIC deposit insurance coverage limit is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC bank, per ownership category. This means each depositor is insured to at least $250,000 at an FDIC-insured bank.
With joint accounts, the FDIC insurance covers up to $250,000 per co-owner — or $500,000. However, this limit applies to all joint accounts that you share at a bank.
Thus if three people jointly own a $750,000 account, the entire account balance is insured because each depositor's $250,000 share of the account is insured. The owner of a revocable trust account is generally insured up to $250,000 for each unique beneficiary (subject to special rules if there are more than five of them).
An Act to reform Federal deposit insurance, protect the deposit insurance funds, recapitalize the Bank Insurance Fund, improve supervision and regulation of insured depository institutions, and for other purposes. Nicknames: Bank Enterprise Act of 1991: Enacted by: the 102nd United States Congress: Effective: December 19, 1991: Citations ...
With up to $250,000 in coverage per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category, it’s important for individuals and businesses to understand the limits and guidelines of this insurance.
Here's how that works: Say you have $250,000 in an individual savings account and $50,000 in an individual checking account at Bank A. That means you, the depositor, have $300,000 total in one ...
While S&Ls were freed to pay depositors higher interest rates, the institutions continued to carry large portfolios of loans paying them much lower rates of return; by 1981, 85 percent of the thrifts were losing money and the congressional response was the Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. [5]