Unclaimed Property Blog

When a person dies with considerable assets, that money and property typically goes to the next in line in the family, otherwise known as the decedent’s subsequent heir. If that person isn’t available at the will reading or if no heir is located, the estate of the deceased will usually go into holding in a treasury vault, either at the state or federal level. This happens more often than you’d suspect, and it leads to inheritance checks going undiscovered for years. Some estate funds and property are never recovered at all by the rightful heir. If you suspect that you have unclaimed inheritance money in holding that originated from one of your deceased relatives, you can reclaim that money by visiting a database known as Cash Unclaimed.

If you were to drop a fifty dollar bill on the ground outside of a Little Rock Walmart and then you went back a little while later to search for it, only to find it missing, you might suspect that someone came along and picked it up. If you then set out to find the person who picked up your money, you’re probably going to run yourself to exhaustion and you’ll still be none the richer. While you might be out of luck if you drop physical money on the ground, you can retrieve your hard-earned funds if you happen to lose cash electronically or via check. This is known as Arkansas missing cash and there are over $170 million to relocate, according to the last estimates. If you want to track down missing cash in Arkansas, you don’t have to call anyone or mail any letters. You only have to visit a single website called Cash Unclaimed.

Gift cards are increasing in popularity all around the country. They’re especially good for those people you really don’t know how to shop for. That’s why, if you have a birthday coming up or this Christmas, there’s a good chance that you’ll be handed a greeting card with a gift card inside – by a co-worker, friend or even a neighbor. The thing is, even though gift cards are becoming more popular than ever, they don’t always get used. In fact, there is a growing problem in this country that revolves around unclaimed gift cards. With so much money piling up, to the tune of millions of dollars, you might want to conduct a search to see if you can possibly find unclaimed gift cards in your name.

Everyday citizens across Georgia are missing valuable funds that they worked hard for; and yet most don’t even know that the money is out there. This is the Georgia missing wages problem and every year the dilemma gets bigger. The first question most people have when they are told about the Georgia missing wages problem is – How did the money go missing in the first place? How do people miss their own money? Do I have to fly out there to track it down and claim it? The problem is a complicated one, but it’s one that can be better explained with a few examples. Here is how Georgia missing wages actually go missing and how you can claim them using an online connection and your very own first and last name.

In September of last year, it was announced that some residents of the state of Ohio were set to receive $9.5 million in unclaimed class action funds. The judge ruled in the residents’ favor, because Ohio had been doing something that other states had been doing for years; but just because other states are doing it doesn’t make it right. Let’s delve into what the state of Ohio was doing that was so bad in order to facilitate a better understanding of unclaimed class action funds.

Unclaimed Class Action Funds – You May Be Owed Money

Alabama has its share of problems, like most states in the union, but one pressing problem is forcing state treasurers to work overtime. Alabama lost funds are growing quickly out of hand, and treasury officials are trying the ‘kitchen sink’ routine when it comes to dealing with the issue. Extra manpower, throwing extra funds at the problem – so far nothing has seemed to work; that is until a particular online database showed up on the scene. Not affiliated with the treasury, Cash Unclaimed is considered one of the largest databases of its kind in the nation. It will help families all over the state discover lost funds in Alabama with nothing more than the internet and some basic contact information.

Since its inception, the child support system has continued to provide money and support to children who might otherwise not have it; and in doing so the system has helped millions of families around the country find stability and a better quality of life. Unfortunately, even with all the safeguards and checks and balances in place, many child support payments fail to reach the intended recipients. The sad reality of that statement is that some families are doing without their much needed assistance. The silver lining is that this money can now be found and claimed by the families in need. To recover your unclaimed child support funds, you only have to visit a single online database called Cash Unclaimed.

If you have ever had money in escrow, as is common during the process of home buying, you may have lost escrow amounts unbeknownst to you at that time. The process is easy enough. You put money in escrow, and whether you purchased the house or backed out at the last minute, you expected all the money to ether go to the real estate agent and previous owner or back into your bank account if you declined the offer. In any case, you may have lost escrow amounts owed to you. To retrieve your lost escrow amounts, point your browser to Cash Unclaimed, a massive database that is designed to help you find that very amount of money that you may have lost.

Uncashed checks are a growing problem, but it’s one not often talked about. When a check is issued to and mailed to a person and that person fails to receive it, you may wonder what happens to that money. If no one cashes the check, the money will be sent to the state’s uncashed checks department inside the treasury. There the checks will sit until someone steps forward to claim them. To find out if you have a right to claim uncashed checks that may be addressed to you, log onto the Cash Unclaimed database and insert your first and last name.

When someone wins the lottery, it is up to that person to step forward to claim any and all winnings before the allotted time limit. If the time limit expires and no one announces that they have indeed won the prize, that money will go into the state’s unclaimed money vault. This is where it will sit until someone comes forward to properly claim it. To see if you have unclaimed lottery winnings, you only have to conduct a simple search online using the Cash Unclaimed database. Then you can see if any of those tickets  you ever misplaced or forgot to check actually hit and is now just sitting out there somewhere under your name or lottery ticket information.