Your savings insured to $100,000 by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), an agency of the U.S. Government. Traditional and Roth IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) are insured to $250,000 by the NCUA. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions and insures savings in federal and most state-chartered credit unions across the country through the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), a federal fund backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government.