2012-2024 Form

I want to believe that most banks nowadays have made the process of opening bank account, which used to be cumbersome, less cumbersome. All you need to do is to approach the bank, collect the form, and fill. However if you have any difficulty in filling it, you can always call on one of the banks rep to help you out.

By CD account I assume you mean Certificate of Deposit. Federal credit unions are not the only places that offer them. State and federal banks do, also.Certificate Of Deposit - CDA CD is a “savings security” with a fixed maturity date. In other words, one “buys” a CD with a maturity date of - 1 year, 2 years, or more. The agreement that one is making with a bank in obtaining a CD is that the money will remain in the CD until the maturity date, and if the money is taken out before the maturity date there will be a penalty - perhaps one month’s interest, for example, on a one-year CD. The total amount of the CD, including any interest earned, must be withdrawn - cancelling the CD. In return for allowing the bank or credit union to “hold onto” all of that money for 1, 2, or more years, the bank/credit union will pay you perhaps 2% interest on that money - available when the CD matures.A savings account is an interest-paying account at a bank (or credit union) with little or no penalties for withdrawal of any part of the balance in the account. So, if you have $2,000 in a savings account you can withdraw $100, or even the entire $2,000, plus interest. But if you leave just a few dollars in the savings account, it remains open. Back in to good ol’ days, savings accounts paid about 5% in annual interest (and in the hyperinflation days of J Carter’s administration it was sometimes three times or more than that amount). Nowadays, interest on a savings account can be zero, and sometimes as high as 7 hundredths of a percent (.0007) on the principal. You’re almost (and sometimes are) paying the bank for the privilege of keeping your money there. Still, it’s safer than sticking it under your mattress.Any interest that is earned on your deposited money is reported to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service). Social Security Admin. would obtain such information from the IRS. (well, the IRS would know how much you received from SSI and any bank). Your total income, when you are receiving Social Security payments, will never be less than what you presently receive exclusively from Social Security. In other words, if you receive $15,000 per year in SSI payments, no matter how much more you receive in investment income or salary payments, your annual income - even if you have to “repay” some of the SSI payments - will never be less than the SSI payment alone.I want to emphasize that last sentence, because I’ve met young-ish widows and retired people who are afraid to earn more than a pittance at a part-time job because they are afraid that they will “lose” income if they make more than the “maximum you can earn” provision of Social Security. The US government isn’t particularly generous to its poorest citizens, but it doesn’t penalize its retirees and widows by reducing the bare minimum income provided by Social Security.

Assuming you don’t have any other source of income from that company, you claim the amount given in your form 16 under head Income Chargeable to tax.