Updated November 8, 2026. Quick answer: FS Form 4000 reissues paper Series EE and Series I savings bonds, plus Retirement Plan and Individual Retirement Bonds, under a new registration. EE and I bonds come back as electronic bonds in a TreasuryDirect account, never as paper, and cannot be reissued within one month of final maturity. If a living owner’s name is removed, that owner must report the previously unreported interest for the year of the reissue. The 2026 revision (OMB No. 1530-0025) needs a notary or certifying officer and goes to Treasury Retail Securities Services, PO Box 9150, Minneapolis, MN 55480-9150.
What FS Form 4000 does
Treasury’s use statement: “Complete this form to reissue paper (definitive) Series EE and Series I United States Savings Bonds, Retirement Plan Bonds, and Individual Retirement Bonds.” Part A covers EE and I bonds; Part B covers the retirement bonds. “A separate form must be used for each new registration with the corresponding account number for Series EE and Series I.”
Payment is a different form: “To request payment, submit form FS Form 1522 (see www.treasurydirect.gov) instead of this form.” That is FS Form 1522.
Reissued EE and I bonds are electronic
“When we reissue Series EE or Series I savings bonds, we no longer provide paper bonds. The reissued bonds are in electronic form, in our online system TreasuryDirect.” Part A asks for the TreasuryDirect account number, account name and Social Security or Employer Identification Number of the account that will hold the bonds.
“Series EE and Series I bonds may not be reissued within one month of final maturity.”
Registration limits are spelled out: “A bond reissued to an individual will be in one name alone. However, after the bond is reissued in TreasuryDirect, the owner can add a secondary owner or beneficiary to the bond.” “A bond reissued to an entity, such as a trust, always will be solely in the name of the entity.” A trust uses FS Form 1851 instead. The form also points to SmartExchange, a program that converts paper EE and I bonds to electronic form.
The tax rule on the form
“If the name of a living owner or principal coowner of the bonds is eliminated from the registration, the owner or principal coowner must include the interest earned and previously unreported on the bonds to the date of the transaction on his or her Federal income tax return for the year of the reissue.”
Treasury then adds “THE OBLIGATION TO REPORT THE INTEREST CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO SOMEONE ELSE THROUGH A REISSUE TRANSACTION.” For bonds in either-owner (“A or B”) form the form defines the principal coowner as the one who bought the bonds with his or her own funds, or received them by gift, inheritance, legacy or judicial proceedings (subject to the proviso printed on the form); unless Treasury is told otherwise “the first-named coowner will be considered the principal coowner for the purpose of this transaction.”
The interest decision is covered at I bond interest reporting and inherited savings bonds.
Who cannot sign
The instructions list three limits: a minor may not sign a request for reissue, a minor under legal guardianship may not request reissue, and an incompetent owner, coowner or beneficiary may not request reissue. In each case the reissue is in the name of the minor or incompetent alone.
If a name changed, the signer follows the form’s format: the present legal name, “changed by” the manner of change, “from” the name on the bonds. “To support a change of name, other than by marriage, a complete statement should follow the signature to show exactly how the change of name was authorized.”
Evidence, certification and mailing
The signature must be certified. The instructions: “Sign the form in ink, in the presence of a notary or authorized certifying officer.” Seals and stamps include an official seal or stamp of a financial institution (Signature Guaranteed, Endorsement Guaranteed, Corporate, or Issuing or paying agent), or the seal or stamp of a Treasury-recognized Signature Guarantee Program or other Treasury-approved Medallion Program. See refused Medallion guarantees.
Treasury “reserves the right, in any particular case, to require the submission of additional evidence.” A table on the first page of the form sets out the signers and evidence for each reissue situation, such as a living owner, a deceased owner or a court order; the table is not reproduced here, so read it on the form.
Send the form without its instruction pages, with the securities and any additional information, to Treasury Retail Securities Services, PO Box 9150, Minneapolis, MN 55480-9150. The form states no processing time, only “We estimate it will take you about 30 minutes to complete this form.”
Where a reissue comes up after a death
After a death, FS Form 5336 and FS Form 1455 each name FS Form 4000 as the form a person entitled to paper savings bonds submits to have them reissued to himself or herself.
Common mistakes
- Expecting a paper bond back. EE and I reissues land in a TreasuryDirect account as electronic bonds.
- Submitting a reissue within one month of final maturity. Those bonds cannot be reissued.
- Removing a living owner’s name and ignoring the tax. That owner must include the previously unreported interest on the return for the year of the reissue.
- Using this form to put bonds in a trust. A trust uses FS Form 1851, and a bond reissued to an entity is always in the entity’s name alone.
- Using this form to cash a bond. Payment is requested on FS Form 1522.
Related: inherited savings bonds, I bond interest reporting, and FS Form 1522.
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- FS Form 4000 (Revised April 2026), Request To Reissue United States Savings Bonds: treasurydirect.gov PDF
- TreasuryDirect, Forms for Savings Bonds (current list of forms): treasurydirect.gov page
Source: the Fiscal Service form and forms list linked above, read on November 8, 2026. General information, not legal or tax advice. Your own facts decide the outcome, and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, an attorney or a tax preparer is the right place to confirm anything consequential.