Posted: 1/6/2026 7:04:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: nikdfish][Edited]
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I don't know if anyone here has gotten bitten by this, but some time last year Treasury broke a piece of the code in the Savings Bonds Calculator site ( https://treasurydirect.gov/BC/SBCPrice ). Previously they had replaced the old standalone Savings Bond Wizard app with an on-lline calculator. You plug in your bond serial numbers, etc. & get current value, next accrual, etc. To eliminate the need for re-entering the savings bond serial numbers each time you want an update, they built in a mechanism so you could save a page with all your entries. Click a "save" button & you open a new page with your current list of savings bonds with the updated value info & any modifications to the list (like the deleting of cashed in bonds). You do a "save page as" & store a copy on your machine. Open that saved page at a later time, click on a "RETURN TO SAVINGS BOND CALCULATOR" button & the entries get posted to the calculator site. You are back on calculator site with all your entries with updated info. Not having to re-enter bond issue dates, series and serial numbers is a big deal when you are tracking hundreds of bonds. The on-line calculator worked OK til they broke it. Apparently when doing an update (maybe when linking in an analytics component?) they altered the save form's post definition & left out the fully qualified post method. Old code: <form method="post" action="https://treasurydirect.gov/BC/SBCPrice"> Current code: <form method="post"> If you edit the saved page & insert the old style post method, clicking the "RETURN TO SAVINGS BOND CALCULATOR" button works again. I attempted to send a note to the site administration a few months back, but no response & the site "save" function is still broken. Maybe this helps if someone else is out there with a bunch of the paper bonds. |