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type: "LegalText"
title: "12 U.S.C. § 1790c"
description: "Reward for information leading to recoveries or civil penalties"
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title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
chapter_number: "14"
chapter_name: "FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONS"
section: "1790c"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1790c"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 12 U.S.C. § 1790c - Reward for information leading to recoveries or civil penalties

## Text

The Board may pay rewards in connection with an offense affecting an insured credit union, under the same circumstances and subject to the same limitations that a Federal banking agency may pay rewards under section 1831j of this title in connection with an offense affecting a depository institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(June 26, 1934, ch. 750, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 933(b), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 496.)