Unclaimed Property Blog

The state unclaimed money websites and all of the government sponsored sites related to found money are missing 90% of the lost money records and can often make you miss out on funds that you should have claimed. They simply don’t contain most of the records. It would take you 50+ hours to search all the government sites one by one. No matter what your state tells you, there is no government site that searches all the lost money databases.

This story by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that 54,639 people and companies in Broward County Florida and 32,937 in Palm Beach County Florida who have money or valuables at the state’s Unclaimed Property agency. These lost funds and unclaimed property come from old bank accounts, insurance policies, uncashed checks, business accounts, safe deposit boxes and other sources. Every state and some Federal agencies are holding unclaimed property. In fact, it is said that there is over $30 billion dollars in unclaimed property listed by these agencies. Most people don’t even know they are owed the money.

Every year the state of Nevada has millions of dollars worth of unclaimed property reported to it. This money belongs to people who have forgotten bank accounts, uncashed checks, lost insurance settlements and many other sources. Most people don’t even know they have money being help by the state in their name. Now, based on this article published in the Las Vegas Sun, the state of Nevada wants to spend “$8 million a year from the state’s unclaimed property fund… through 2012”. That’s your money they are spending! You better click to check out this unclaimed property search and see if any of it belongs to you.

The Idaho State Tax Commission is looking for people who are owed unclaimed property, and hoping they’ll call to claim the this lost money.

It’s found money and unclaimed funds for which Idaho businesses have been unable to find the rightful owners, such as payroll checks, contents of safe deposit boxes, tax refunds, stock dividends, worker’s compensation benefits and so on.

The Idaho Legislature in 1997 changed state unclaimed property law. Businesses are required to report these monies to the state tax commission and now after property that’s safeguarded by the tax commission remains unclaimed for 10 years, it will transfer to state ownership and be deposited in Idaho’s general fund.

The State of Rhode Island has been flooded with requests to claim unclaimed property. It seems that they’ve listed over 15,000 new people in the lost money database. This brings the total for the state of Rhode Island to over $120,000,000 (yes that’s million) dollars in found money that they want to return to it’s rightful owners. To find out more about this story see Eyewitness News – Unclaimed Property Calls Flooding into Office

You should find out if you have any owed to you by clicking here for the Cash Unclaimed Property Search