WASHINGTON -- Employees of credit unions interested in applying for grants from the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund can learn more about the program during a teleconference on Tuesday from 2:00-3:00 ET.

WASHINGTON -- All eyes will be on the U.S. House when it votes today on an economic package that includes raising the amount of credit union deposits that are federally insured and creates a fund that buys illiquid assets from credit unions and other financial institutions.

WASHINGTON -- All eyes will be on the U.S. House when it votes today on an economic package that includes raising the amount of credit union deposits that are federally insured and creates a fund that buys illiquid assets from credit unions and other financial institutions.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush emphasized that the amount of credit union deposits covered by federal share insurance would temporarily increase under the bill working its way through Congress.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The NCUA has granted a federal charter to Oak Cliff Christian Federal Credit Union, Dallas, the agency announced today.

WASHINGTON -- Deposits in credit unions would be temporarily insured up to $250,000 and credit unions, banks and thrifts would be able to sell their illiquid assets to the government under the bill passed by the Senate last night by a vote of 74-25.

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders are considering increasing the amount of credit union and bank deposits covered by federal insurance from $100,000 to $250,000 for one year, as part of a revised asset purchase plan scheduled to be voted on by the Senate tonight.

WASHINGTON -- Although most credit unions didn't make the loans that helped trigger the housing crisis, they are trying to get access to some of the federal money being used to solve it.