Woman’s interstate web search pays off.
This may seem strange but a woman living in Oregon finds money in Texas that belongs to a school district in Pennsylvania.
Wendy Lemmerman, 42, of Portland, Ore., checks Web sites listing unclaimed property to try to find money for charities.
Lemmerman recently found $35,000 that Texas was holding in unclaimed money for the Philadelphia School District . She sent an e-mail toThe Philadelphia Inquirer and the newspaper forwarded the tip to the district.
Neither the school district nor the Texas comptroller’s office supplied details of the origins of the unclaimed funds. The Inquirer reported that a district financial specialist, Jessica Diaz, said the money included two checks that apparently were rebates or refunds from the mid-1980s, one from Xerox Corp. and one from Dell Marketing L.P.
There are many people, companies and schools that do have money in unclaimed or abandoned accounts. Web site searches such as CashUnclaimed.com are a quick and easy way to discover if you have unclaimed assests.
