Unclaimed Property Blog

If you’d like some free money you might want to enter your name in a state unclaimed money search.

You may have an uncashed payroll check, old bank account, interest payment or some other money owed to you.

LA State Treasurer John Kennedy is urging Louisiana residents to check the treasury department’s Web site to see if they’re owed cash.

More than $400 million sits unclaimed. Kennedy’s office says one in six residents has unclaimed money listed with the state! You never know how much money you are missing!

Recently the State of Idaho has been running articles in local papers to inform citizens of the MILLIONS in unclaimed money being held by the state.

These articles are being done amidst pressure from unclaimed money advocates after 4 years of increasing unclaimed money funds in the hands of the state.

Don’t let the state keep your unclaimed money - search and see how much unclaimed money you are owed!

A recent article on “We’ve Got Your Back” column details two people and their unclaimed money experience. Here is the article:

Two readers of “We’ve Got Your Back” recently got some good news and some not-so-good news. They recently received letters that family members had money owed to them. The not-so-good news was that there were some hefty fees that they’d have to pay to get their cash.

In the Arizona Powerball Lottery their is a winner of $200000 that has not claimed their winnings.

In Arizona, Lottery winners have up to 180 days to claim their prize.

The largest unclaimed Powerball prize to date is $200,000, and it expires Feb. 9.

After the period to claim a prize expires, 30 percent of the money goes to the state’s court-appointed special-advocate program, which is run by the Arizona Supreme Court. The rest goes back to the Lottery in the form of prizes, said Art Macias, executive director for Arizona Lottery.

In 2008 there was over $1 Billion in unclaimed lottery prize money.

BY SAMUEL GOLDSMITH
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Thursday, December 25th 2008, 3:55 PM

Santa has come and gone, but the stocking stuffer of a lifetime is still out there for some lucky New Yorkers.

The state controller’s office is holding $9 billion in unclaimed cash for an untold number of New York residents — some of whom are sitting on over $1 million each, and don’t even know it.

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The top unclaimed account — held by someone in a city suburb — totals $1.7 million. Two more unknowing millionaires somewhere in the five boroughs have $1.4 and $1 million respectively.

As we all know, we are in a recession the scale of which they say hasn’t been scene in decades. However, many middle class Americans are finding money from an unlikely source; unclaimed money search online!

The middle class are owed BILLIONS of dollars of unclaimed money in the US. Unclaimed money is very likely owed to middle class families as they often open bank accounts, put down deposits, buy insurance and conduct all of the main financial transactions that unclaimed money comes from.

Unclaimed money may be from a household utility deposit you put down then moved away.

Do you think you have missing money tucked away somewhere but don’t know how to find it. Or even if you don’t think there could be anything, would you like to find a free and easy approach to making sure you don’ have missing money you don’t know about. An unclaimed money search can help you do that.

Missing money at Cashunclaimed.com is a nationwide database containing records of unclaimed property. This includes bank accounts and the contents of safe deposit boxes, utility deposits, insurance policies, trust funds, bonds, mutual funds, stocks, uncashed checks (wages and dividends) and so on. Any or all of these and other categories of missing money could apply to you and unless you make the effort to search for money that may be due to you, you will never know.

Money that belongs to you is apparently stashed away in treasuries belonging to the 50 states and the federal government. Have you ever thought of the fact that you could have unclaimed state money waiting for you in the treasuries of one or more states? Would you like your state to use up your hard-earned money for its own benefit? Why take a loan or apply for government grants when you have unclaimed state money that could enable you to buy that new house or car?

An unclaimed money database is a collection of personal information of millions of Americans whose money is lying among the $25 million sitting unclaimed in the U. S. government treasury. You could be among those millions. Your name may be included in an unclaimed money database belonging to one or more states. You may be the rightful owner of thousands, if not millions, of dollars that you did not even know existed. Moreover, you could also be a beneficiary of millions of dollars worth of family property.

Have you moved but forgotten to close your bank account? How about that utility deposit refund that you have not yet received? What happens to all that money? Very few people can answer these questions, making these appear as well kept secrets. Although information about government unclaimed money is not a secret anymore, millions are still unaware of these funds that actually belong to them.

Money Left Behind
Millions of Americans have moved ahead leaving government unclaimed money behind in various companies and financial institutions. Many have not yet been contacted regarding the millions of government unclaimed money that they inherited from family members and close relatives.