State Treasurer urges President to take action on unclaimed U.S. Savings Bonds

Since its inception, a total of 6.8 million paper savings bonds worth over $731 billion have been issued by the U.S. government.Many of these bonds have gone unclaimed because records were lost, owners

Louisiana State Treasurer Dr. John Fleming, M.D., joined 29 other members of the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF) by signing a letter urging President Donald Trump and the U.S. Treasury Department to take action to reunite Americans with approximately $39 billion in unclaimed U.S. savings bonds and World War II war bonds.

The letter calls on the Trump Administration to remove unnecessary …