---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1790c"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1790c"
heading: "Reward for information leading to recoveries or civil penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1790c"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Federal Credit Unions"
  - "Subchapter II — Share Insurance"
---

# §1790c. Reward for information leading to recoveries or civil penalties


The [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) may pay rewards in connection with an offense affecting an [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7), under the same circumstances and subject to the same limitations that a Federal banking agency may pay rewards under [section 1831j of this title](/usc/12/1831j.md) in connection with an offense affecting a [depository institution](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-4) insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.


## Source credit

(June 26, 1934, ch. 750, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 933(b), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 496.)