Understanding Your coverage through the fdic
What is the FDIC?
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system. To accomplish this mission, the FDIC insures deposits; examines and supervises financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes large and complex financial institutions resolvable; and manages receiverships.
Since its creation in 1933, the FDIC has been an essential part of the American financial system. In the 1920s and early 1930s, a rise in bank failures created a national crisis, wiping out many Americans’ savings. Since FDIC insurance began in 1934, no depositor has lost a single penny of insured funds due to bank failure.
Community State Bank has been a member of the FDIC since the government agency was created in 1934.
What is FDIC Insurance?
FDIC deposit insurance protects bank customers in the event that an FDIC-insured depository institution fails. Bank customers don’t need to purchase deposit insurance; it is automatic for any deposit account opened at an FDIC-insured bank. Deposits are insured up to at least $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.
What is covered under deposit insurance and how much?
The FDIC protects the money depositors place in insured banks in the unlikely event of an insured-bank failure. Each depositor is insured to at least $250,000 per insured bank.
FDIC deposit insurance covers all types of deposits held at an insured bank. The FDIC does not insure money invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, life insurance policies, annuities or municipal securities, even if these investments are purchased at an insured bank.
For a full list of insured banking products, please visit FDIC.gov.
Calculating Your FDIC Coverage
FDIC Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) is an online tool that can be used to determine whether your accounts are fully insured at each insured bank where your deposits are held. EDIE allows you to input dollar amounts you have on deposit in an insured bank or use a hypothetical scenario to determine your coverage.
FDIC does NOT insure non-deposit investment products, such as stocks, bonds, government and municipal securities, mutual funds, annuities (fixed and variable), life insurance policies (whole and variable), savings bonds, crypto assets, etc. EDIE is NOT an estimator for investments (even if the investments were purchased from an insured bank).
Additional Questions
If you have questions that are not addressed here, please visit the FDIC Resource Center. For any banking related questions, please contact one of our Cash Management Team members below. You can also reach a CSB Team Member by visiting our CSB Support Page or by calling (262) 878-3763.
Source: FDIC.gov.
