---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 9702"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "9702"
heading: "Investment of trust funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/9702"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 97 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §9702. Investment of trust funds


Except as required by a treaty of the United States, amounts held in trust by the United States Government (including annual interest earned on the amounts)—

- (1) shall be invested in Government obligations; and
- (2) shall earn interest at an annual rate of at least 5 percent.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1052.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9702 | 31:547a. | R.S. § 3659. |

The section is substituted for 31:547a for clarity and consistency in the revised title.