---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 353.29"
title: "31"
number: "353.29"
heading: "Adjudication of claims."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/353.29"
---

# §353.29. Adjudication of claims.

- (a) **General.** The Bureau of the Fiscal Service will adjudicate claims for lost, stolen or destroyed bonds on the basis of records created and regularly maintained in the ordinary course of business.
- (b) **Claims filed 10 years after payment.** A bond for which no claim has been filed within 10 years of the recorded date of redemption will be presumed to have been properly paid. If a claim is subsequently filed, a photographic copy of the bond will not be available to support the disallowance.
- (c) **Claims filed six years after final maturity.** No claim filed six years or more after the final maturity of a savings bond will be entertained unless the claimant supplies the serial number of the bond.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 12 U.S.C. 391; 31 U.S.C. 3105, 3125.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 76441, Dec. 26, 1979, unless otherwise noted.