Treasury Hunt is gone — how to look for old savings bonds now

For years the answer to 'how do I find out if my grandmother left savings bonds' was Treasury Hunt. TreasuryDirect now states it plainly: as of September 30, 2025, the Treasury Hunt tool is no longer available.

That is worth knowing before you start, because pages all over the web — including federal ones — still list Treasury Hunt among the places to search. Following those links lands you on a notice that the tool is gone, which reads like a dead end rather than a redirect.

Where matured bonds are reported now

Unredeemed and matured savings bonds are increasingly reported to state unclaimed property programs, which is where a search should start. Use your state's official program, then every other state you or the bond's owner lived in.

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service points to the same place, describing the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators' site as an excellent resource for tracking down unclaimed property.

If the bond itself is lost, stolen, or destroyed

That is a different process and it still runs through the Treasury. TreasuryDirect's forms page carries the claim for lost, stolen, or destroyed United States savings bonds — FS Form 1048 — which goes to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

You will do better with any detail you can reconstruct: the owner's name and Social Security number, approximate purchase dates, and the issuing institution.

One sentence to keep in mind while searching

The Fiscal Service says it directly: there is no government-wide, centralized information service or database on how unclaimed government assets may be obtained. Each agency holds its own.

So any site advertising a single national database of unclaimed federal money is describing something that does not exist. Search agency by agency, and state by state, on the official pages.