It would call for a $100,000 insurance limit on each individual regardless of how many different banks the money is kept in.

But a higher insurance limit doesn't make a home more affordable.

In the meantime, checks drawn on Community National, up to the insurance limit of $100,000, will continue to be honored.

The insurance limits could rise in the future, but not until 2011, if at all.

In general, the pilots are expected to lose the most, because they have been promised rich pensions that exceed the government's insurance limits.

Type A would have an insurance limit of $100,000 or less, and be limited to one or two to a person.

"Persons who reach a 30-day insurance limit and need more care usually are in very bad shape," he said.

These workers tend to earn pensions safely within the government's insurance limits.

And since the remainder still exceeded the insurance limits, he lost about 10 percent of that, too.

And there's the insurance limit on funds in a bank.