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The interim government has increased interest rates on various national savings certificates to upwards of 12 percent in an effort to make these instruments more attractive to savers and to cool ...

Depending on the type of savings bond you have, there are different ways to cash in. Find out how to cash in savings bonds ...

Since 2012, when banks stopped selling paper savings bonds, buyers have been limited to making their purchases electronically, with one exception: buyers could purchase paper series I savings ...

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The Treasury Department ended its tax-time savings bond program as of Jan. 1. The program was the last way to buy the paper version of I bonds, as Series I savings bonds are known. The bonds aim ...