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0 pointsjcater10y ago0 comments

In what country? Certainly not the US for FDIC insured accounts. My bank went under in 2009 and I never lost access to money.

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tinkerrr10y ago· 2 in thread

Did you have more than $250,000 in your account? If so, then you would have lost access to part of your money, or gotten if after a bankruptcy court hearing. Deposits are not the highest priority item on a bank's liability side of the balance sheet, and as a depositor, you'll likely not get paid in full.

giaour10y ago

That limit is per account, not per person. If you have more than $250K in an account, open a second one.

mikeash10y ago

Not so. The limit is per depositor, per bank, per ownership category:

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/

Ownership category is just something like single, joint, retirement, etc. If you have more than $250,000 spread across multiple accounts but with the same account holder and ownership category, the excess is not covered.

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