- Properly established share accounts in federally insured credit unions are insured up to $250,000.
- Generally, if a member has more than one account in the same credit union, all funds are added together and insured up to $250,000.
- A member can have additional coverage on multiple accounts, but only if the accounts have different ownership interests or rights in different types of accounts.
- Additional coverage is available on revocable trust or payable on death accounts.
- On joint accounts, the co-owner’s interest in all joint accounts in the same credit union will be added together and insured up to $250,000.
- Traditional and Roth IRAs are insured separately to $250,000 from other accounts that the member maintains in the same credit union.
- However, both Traditional and Roth IRAs are added together and insured up to $250,000.
- For revocable trust accounts, a member can have coverage up to the SMSIA for each account that has a different beneficiary named to receive the funds.