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NCUA Share Insurance Overview

  • The balances in your individual savings, certificate, and checking accounts are insured up to $250,000
  • Joint ownership can expand the overall insurance coverage. The combined balances in joint accounts are insured separately from individual accounts for up to $250,000 per name on the account
    • What’s this mean? If your joint accounts total $500,000 and there are two owners on the account(s), each owner is insured for $250,000
  • The funds in your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) are insured up to $250,000
  • Business accounts are insured up to $250,000
  • Trust Accounts, depending upon their type, may be insured separately from any other accounts held by the trustee and provide up to $250,000 for each beneficiary per trustee. Each trust relationship must be evaluated individually to determine the appropriate insurance coverage

How To Maximize Your Share Insurance at Signal Financial

Coverage to
$250,000
Coverage to
$500,000
Coverage to
$750,000
Coverage to
$1,000,000
Coverage to
$2,000,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Trust Account
$250,000
(1 Qualifying
Beneficiary)
Trust Account
$1,250,000
(5 Qualifying
Beneficiaries)
Coverage to
$250,000
Coverage to
$500,000
Coverage to
$750,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Coverage to
$1,000,000
Coverage to
$2,000,000
Individual
$250,000
Individual
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Joint Owner
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Individual Retirement Account
$250,000
Trust Account
$250,000
(1 Qualifying
Beneficiary)
Trust Account
$1,250,000
(5 Qualifying
Beneficiaries)

NCUA Share Insurance Estimator

NCUA’s Share Insurance Estimator can help you better understand the protection offered by the NCUSIF. Input hypothetical data to compute the amount of NCUSIF coverage available under different account structure scenarios.

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