TreasuryDirect Help
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Select from the following list of popular help topics or choose from the other help tools listed in the right-hand column.
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Popular Help Topics
Setting Up an Account
What you need to apply
Completing the Individual Account Application
Completing the Entity Account Application
Choosing a Personalized Image / Caption
Accessing Your Account
Account Number
Forgot your account number?
One Time Passcode
Password
Forgot your password?
Purchasing
How do I buy an EE or I Bond?
How do I buy a Treasury Marketable Security?
Will I receive a paper security?
Can I purchase a security using payroll deduction?
Managing Your Account
How easy is it to manage my individual account and my securities?
How easy is it to manage my entity account and my securities?
What are my shared securities in an individual account?
Tell me more about managing taxes for my securities
Tell me more about Zero-Percent C of I
Tell me more about my Funding Options
How can I reinvest my Treasury Marketable Security?
Redeeming Savings Bonds
When should I redeem my savings bonds?
How do I redeem an EE or I Bond through TreasuryDirect?
Help Toolkit
User Guide
Page-by-page documentation of the TreasuryDirect account area. For quick reference, see our Full Index-Individual Account or Full Index-Entity Account.
How Do I...?
Step-by-step instructions for commonly performed transactions in TreasuryDirect.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about your TreasuryDirect account.
Glossary
Common and not-so-common terms you'll encounter on our site.
Learn More About
Descriptions of pages provided to learn more about specific functions in TreasuryDirect.
Technical Help
If you're having browser, connection, or computer problems, this is the place for you.
Guided Tour-Individual Account
See for yourself how simple it is to set up an individual account and to buy and manage securities online.
Guided Tour-Entity Account
See for yourself how simple it is to set up an entity account and to buy and manage securities online.