[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR353.26]

[Page 329]
 
                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
         CHAPTER II--FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 353--REGULATIONS GOVERNING UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS, SERIES EE AND HH--Table of Contents
 
Subpart F--Relief for Loss, Theft, Destruction, Mutilation, Defacement, 
                         or Nonreceipt of Bonds
 
Sec. 353.26  Application for relief--After receipt of bond.

    (a) If the serial numbers of the lost, stolen, or destroyed bonds 
are known, the claimant should execute an application for relief on the 
appropriate form and submit it to the Bureau of the Public Debt, 
Parkersburg, WV 26101.
    (b) If the bond serial number is not known, the claimant must 
provide sufficient information to enable the Bureau of the Public Debt 
to identify the bond by serial number. See Sec. 353.29(c). The Bureau 
will furnish the proper application form and instructions.
    (c) If applicable, a defaced bond and all available fragments of a 
mutilated bond should be submitted to the Bureau.
    (d) The application must be made by the person or persons (including 
both coowners, if living) authorized under these regulations to request 
payment of the bond. In addition:
    (1) If the bond is in beneficiary form and the owner and beneficiary 
are both living, both will ordinarily be required to join in the 
application.
    (2) If a minor named on a bond as owner, coowner, or beneficiary is 
not of sufficient competency and understanding to request payment, both 
parents will ordinarily be required to join in the application.
    (e) If the application is approved, relief will be granted either by 
the issuance of a bond bearing the same issue date as the bond for which 
the claim was filed or by the issuance of a check in payment.