DD25, The easiest way is to go through the treasury folks. USAA already included the link. The Treasury website will tell you how to inventory them and mail them in. You will have to set up an account with them first, because once you do that, they will ask you to input the info for each bond. That will automatically create the inventory for you to print and mail in with your bonds. Once they're in the system, you see a lot of info for that particular bond (date purchased, Maturity date, denomination of the bond, interest earnes, etc.) As they mature, the only thing you have to do is login to your account and they will tell you which bond it is and what do you want them to. They can direct deposit the amount into a bank account. They can also take out a certain percentage for taxes if you want. I print out and inventory of my bonds every couple of months to see what they're worth at that point, because I keep that info in Quicken. I have a few that will be reaching their maturity in the next few months/years. I don't have to deal with (or try to find) a bank to cash them in. Actually works very well. Give it a try. Beats having to make calls or finding a financial institution that will do it for you without taking a service fee.
