Looks like the FDIC coverage limit was raised to $250,000 in 2008 and made permanent in 2010, before that it was $100,000 since 1980. https://americandeposits.

Looks like the FDIC coverage limit was raised to $250,000 in 2008 and made permanent in 2010, before that it was $100,000 since 1980. https://americandeposits.com/history-and-timeline-of-changes-to-fdic-coverage-limits/ https://americandeposits.com/history-and-timeline-of-changes... Plugging that into any online inflation calculator, $1 in 2010 is $1.33 in 2023. So FDIC insurance should really cover $333,000, and people could lose $83,000 or more due to coverage not being raised. This is one of 1000 examples of how deregulation and defunding government programs often backfires on the people calling for it. It's almost like the people who casually deal in hundreds of thousands of dollars don't know the value of the dollar, because they got that money by skimming it from their employees.