# Expendability (/docs/errors/chain/Expendability)

The transfer or payment would drop the sender below the existential deposit and kill the account while keep-alive semantics are required. Compare the sender's free balance minus the amount and fees against `ExistentialDeposit`, or use `transfer_allow_death` if reaping is acceptable.

Declared by the `Balances` pallet; it classifies to the semantic code [`insufficient_balance`](/docs/errors/insufficient-balance).

## Remediation [#remediation]

Fund the signing account or reduce the amount; check with `btcli wallet balance`

The same explanation is available in the terminal: `btcli explain Expendability`.