Treasury to release new Savings Bond Wizard
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Categorized as: Savings Bond interest rates • Savings Bond news
According to an update on the Treasury’s Savings Bond Wizard page, a new version of the Wizard will be released on May 14.
Older versions of the Wizard will no longer be supported with semi-annual data updates, so everyone will be required to update to the new version.
From the announcement:
A new Savings Bond Wizard will be available for download beginning May 14, 2010. If you have an earlier version of the program, you’ll need to download the new file in order to continue pricing your bonds.
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Tom Adams
Will we have to re-enter all our bond information or will it transfer directly to the new wizard?
John – There’s nothing official on that, but there would be rioting in the streets if the data didn’t transfer, so I suspect it will.
Tom Adams
I decided to try the Savings Bond Calculator while I waited for the new Wizard. It doesn’t allow you to sort bonds by different columns, but other than that seems to be comparable, at least for what I do. You can export your Wizard data to a Calculator (HTML) file (the export option under “File”), and open that file in your browser. It seems to reverse the order of the bonds, and only shows the first bond initially (but there is a “Show All” button at bottom).
I have a $5,000 Savings Bond, Series A
When I checked on March 9 the value was $6458 and the interest rate was zero.
I checked again on May 15 and the value now is $6838 and the interest rate is 4.689%.
It is nice to know but would appreciate some comments to explain the higher the interest rate based upon what is happening all over.
Thank you so very much..
Murray
Murray – Series A bonds were issued beginning on March 1, 1935 for not more than a few years. It’s unlikely that’s what you have.
Are you sure you put in the correct information when you looked up the value of your bond?
Tom Adams
Will this new version work with Apple Safari? Any plan to do so?
Robert – The downloadable Wizard requires Windows. The Treasury’s online equivalent works with Safari as well as with any other browser.
Tom Adams
can you use the savings bond wizard with windows 7?
Marg – Yes.
Tom Adams