Use of Dividends Versus Interest for Share Accounts

Question - We are reviewing some internal documents and noticed that some of our reports seem to use the words “dividends” and “interest” interchangeably. However, we thought the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) regulations prohibit federal credit unions from describing dividends as interest, can you clarify?

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