> All single accounts owned by the same person at the same bank are added together and insured up to $250,000
Revocable trusts, joint accounts, and other types of accounts with multiple custodians are covered separately, but checking, savings, and so on are not.
It's not per type of account, it's per ownership category. Ownership categories are:
(1) Single accounts
(2) Certain self-directed retirement accounts
(3) Joint accounts
(4) Revocable trust accounts
(5) Irrevocable trust accounts
(6) Employee benefit (non-self-directed) plan accounts
(7) Corporation, partnership, or unicorporated association account
(8) Government accounts
https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/categories.html
With a little bit of work, you can probably spread your money into a few of those categories without much problem and have more than $250k coverage, but it's not as easy as just having checking and savings.
It's actually per bank, per type of account. So $250k in savings accounts, $250k in checking, $250 in Money Market, etc.