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As the credit crisis and recession drags on, it's increasingly important to monitor the health of the bank or savings and loan that holds your money. While the FDIC has temporarily increased its individual deposit insurance limit to $250,000 (from $100,000) per account and waived insurance limits on non-interest bearing business checking deposits, these increases are set to expire at the end of this year.

And the end of the year will be here before we know it.

Regarding business checking, it is pretty easy for a business or municipal entity (such a s school district) to have large amounts of somebody else's money flowing through a transaction account. Since it's important to have a stable banking relationship, you should look into your bank's health way before the deposit insurance limit waiver on business transaction accounts expires. ...