Dividends and Interest Paid on Bailout Investments

Most TARP investments require that recipients pay quarterly dividends to the Treasury Department. A few investments were loans, such as those made to the auto companies, on which the recipients pay interest. Below is a list of recipients and how much they’ve paid in dividend or interest payments so far. Also included in the totals are special fees by a couple recipients, most notably Bank of America.

The Treasury has received stock warrants as part of some investments. When companies pay back the TARP investment, the warrants are either sold back to the company or auctioned off. See here for a list of companies that have repaid the TARP investment and how much Treasury received for their warrants.

Altogether, the TARP has brought the Treasury a total of $40,152,329,734 in payback – that's counting fees, dividend, interest payments and the warrants.

The separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also requires that they pay dividends, and those amounts are also listed below. The Treasury has collected $32,030,000,000 in dividends from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.