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31 CFR 363.40: How are payments of principal and interest made?
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury
- Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Money and Finance
- CHAPTER II—FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
- SUBCHAPTER A—BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE
- PART 363—REGULATIONS GOVERNING SECURITIES HELD IN TREASURYDIRECT
- Subpart B—General Provisions Governing Securities Held in TreasuryDirect
(a) Payment of a savings bond that has reached final maturity. We will purchase a zero-percent certificate of indebtedness in your TreasuryDirect ® account using the proceeds of a matured savings bond.
(b) Payments of interest and principal (except a savings bond that has reached final maturity). (1) We provide two methods of receiving payments of principal and interest:
(i) Payment to your account at a financial institution by the ACH method, or
(ii) Payment to your TreasuryDirect account to purchase a zero-percent certificate of indebtedness.
(2) You may select different payment destinations for principal and interest for a marketable Treasury security. You may change your payment destination at any time, unless the security is in the closed book period. (See § 363.210.)
(3) If we are unable to deliver a payment, we will use the payment to purchase a zero-percent certificate of indebtedness in your TreasuryDirect account.
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