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The city of Antlers, OK is known as “The Deer Capital Of The World”. By the city’s name alone, we can guess a lot of bucks are running around in the wilderness of OK. Hundreds of millions of lost bucks are also in the State’s Treasury Department and, you guessed it - they are not furry and brown and their not running around. I’m talking about the 260 million dollars in Oklahoma unclaimed money sitting around in the State Treasurer’s Office. These assets belong to about 350,000 Okie’s who have somehow lost track of them at some point. The main reason the state’s fund got so massive is because the majority of the owners don’t even know they have assets being held by the state!
I didn’t know I had it. says Leiland Osmond, after getting back $150 of his forgotten funds in an OK unclaimed property outreach program at the State Fair. OK State Treasurer Scott Meacham says he’s not the only one. “Obviously, a lot of people have lost money and don’t realize it.” the Treasurer noted in a recent report by OK’s KSBI-TV. Going to the fair was well worth it for Osmond who hopes to share his newly discovered cash. “My grandchildren will take care of it.”
An extra $150 is enough to make anyone’s day, but in another story by NewsOK, a resident of Norman, OK made off with a lot more than that . The lucky unclaimed asset owner was given back $30,000 from some lost AT&T stocks he had forgotten about. According to Tim Allen, spokesman for the State Treasurer’s office, the stocks were sold by the State and the proceeds were put in the state’s Unclaimed Property Fund until the citizen found and claimed them.
Unclaimed monies are intangible financial assets (aside from safe deposit box contents) that have been deemed ‘abandoned’ by their owners. State law requires these assets to be turned over to the state after a period of dormancy. According to the OK Department of Treasury website, “Evidence of this inactivity includes failure to cash a check, the return of a check or correspondence by the Post Office as undeliverable, or the absence of any communication from the owner.”
According to the General Provisions of OK’s Unclaimed Money Rules, qualifying ‘intangible property’ can come from the following sources: (A) monies, checks, drafts, deposits, interests, dividends and income; (B) refunds, unused airline tickets, unidentified remittances, unpaid wages, customer overpayments, credit balances, security deposits, gift certificates, and credit memos; (C) ownership interests in businesses such as stocks; (D) monies deposited to redeem stocks, bonds, coupons and other securities, or to make distributions; (E) amounts payable and due under the terms of specific insurance policies; (F) amounts payable and due under the terms of mining or mineral leases; and (G) amounts distributable from custodial or trust funds created with a plan to provide health, welfare, pension, vacation, severance, retirement, death, stock purchase, profit sharing, employee savings, supplemental unemployment insurance, or similar benefits.
People lose track of these assets when they relocate and forget to leave behind a forwarding address which results in uncashed and lost checks and the like. Death is also a common cause of financial assets being abandoned especially if there is not a will and the next of kin cannot be found. Most of the time, unclaimed property owners just plain forget about their finances in the rush of day to day living.
Residents of OK and other states should check and do an internet unclaimed property search. They could just find out the government owes them cash this time rather than the other way around.
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Thousands belonging to groups lie
While the media runs stories about the registry from time to time, a Corner Brook resident living in Halifax drew The Telegram’s attention to the number of associations and committees from Newfoundland and Labrador with
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Iowa is known to the rest of the nation as the state where presidential caucuses take place, but there is more to the Hawkeye State than election year political events. There are millions of dollars in Iowa unclaimed money owed to regular citizens who only need to step forward and take back what technically already belongs to them. IA and states across the country continue to take in millions of dollars in unclaimed funds every year, and the amount taken in easily exceeds the amount given back to the rightful owners. This means that the abandoned asset pile grows bigger each day giving better odds of tracking down a claim to all citizens.
A program called “The Great Iowa Treasure Hunt”, which is handled by the office of State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald, deals with IA’s unclaimed funds. According to The Great Iowa Treasure Hunt’s website, the most common types of missing money include (but are not limited to): dormant bank accounts, utility refunds, uncashed checks, unclaimed wages, safe-deposit boxes, insurance dividends, stock certificates and dividends. Residents of Iowa who have or have had one or more of these types of accounts have a terrific chance of discovering money owed to them, and are urged to search often.
IA is what is known as a “custodial state” in how it handles unclaimed funds. This means that the state never actually takes ownership of missing money, they just hold them indefinitely until the rightful owner, or a rightful heir (if the owner has passed away), locates and claims them. This is nice because a lot of people aren’t even aware of the lost money phenomenon yet and those that are usually still don’t know the correct way to search. Not having a time period under which a claim must be filed can put minds at ease for those just learning about these monies.
While most people have still not heard of unclaimed funds, those that have often dismiss it immediately because they just can not accept that there are literally tens of billions of dollars owed to citizens across the country. The sad reality is, these people allowing their own cynicism to get between them and their cash! Divorce, death, clerical errors, and moving without leaving a forwarding address are some of the more common reasons that money is abandoned, and it is shocking how often tiny things can allow huge amounts of cash to slip through the cracks.
Even though there are a number of of people who do know about unclaimed funds, the vast majority of them don’t know where to begin their search. Some people will tell you that you can simply put your name in to any old site claiming to have a found money database one time and get a yes or no answer. Not true. First of all, you need to be sure the list of records comes from the state you intend to search. Next, you have to be aware that every type of unclaimed funds has its own unique “dormancy period”, or time which must pass before it must be handed over to the state. Because of this, assets are turned over constantly, so it’s necessary to search often, as we can never be certain when the state’s official records will be updated.
The best way to be sure you’re completely educated about how to perform a thorough unclaimed funds search is to learn how the pros do it, and then put those tactics to work for you in your own search.
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Iowa Legislators satisfied with Lottery's handling of mystery jackpot winner
State lawmakers gave Iowa Lottery officials high marks Tuesday for the way they handled the mysterious circumstances surrounding a winning Hot Lotto jackpot that went unclaimed when attorneys representing a trust that turned in a valid ticket withdrew a claim for the multimillion-dollar prize last week.
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“No doubt, we need the supplemental, but we have to live within our means,” she said of the part of the program that uses
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The most southern of the Dakotas may be home to the country’s treasure that is Mt. Rushmore, but ND has its own treasure that is nothing to sneeze at. According to the website of the State Land Department, there is currently more than $23 million in North Dakota unclaimed money, waiting to be reunited with the residents who lost track of it some time in their lives. The one thing standing between these citizens and their cash, beyond knowing about the fact that these assets exist, is the know-how to locate them and reclaim them.
North Dakota Residents are blessed to live in a state that is among the top 5 in the nation for percentage of unclaimed money given back to residents. Also keep in mind that the state has one of the lowest populations in the nation, at just over 640 thousand. What this means is that ND residents have excellent odds of locating and claiming back assets that are rightfully theirs.
The main rule of searching for unclaimed money is to search frequently. One of the biggest mistakes searchers often make is to search only once on the first website they come to that has a search box and they end their search there. This does not factor in that the vast majority of missing money sites do not have accurate data, and even the official state databases are often slow to be updated. This is an issue, not only due to the fact that an employee in a state office has to physically input the listing once it has been given to the state, but because there are different periods of time which must go by, unique to each type of missing money, before they are handed over to the state.
Some of the most common types of missing money are stocks, dormant savings and checking accounts, mutual funds, bonds, wages, refunds, salary, payroll, paid-up life insurance policies, money orders, commissions, deposits, death benefits, uncashed checks, insurance payments, dividends, and others. The majority of those have dormancy periods of 1 to 5 years, which means that if it has only been a year or two when a person searches; they would not find a record for an asset that has a dormancy period of 3 or more years.
In addition to needing to search the correct sites often, many people do not realize that they ought to search listings outside of ND. Believe it or not, a person could actually have never been outside of the state of ND, but have assets owed to them in different states. This occurs when money from insurance companies or employers come from other states. Often times the actual corporate headquarters for an employer exists in a state separate from where a particular employee works. Because of this, unclaimed monies being held by institutions in these situations will be handed over to the proper division of the company’s home state’s treasury dept. What this means is that ND will not ever have any record of this cash, so a North Dakotan who wants to find and claim it will need to use the same search strategies in other states.
These are only a few of the more common issues that plague the searches of uninformed ND citizens. But people can get over these issues, and a number of others, by spending just a little time educating themselves on the search strategies used by professional searchers before putting their own feet in the water.
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Believe it or not, the contiguous 48 states are not the only states taking part in the multi-billion dollar unclaimed property party. Hawaii unclaimed money has now surpassed the massive amount of $130 million! The greatest part is, this money isn’t a gamble, residents are either due a claim or they are not, and for those that are, the only thing standing between them and their forgotten funds is knowing exactly how to locate the money.
Of the dozens of potential sources of Hawaii unclaimed property, the Dept. of Budget and Finance lists the most common varieties as dormant (no activity for 5 years) checking and savings accounts, uncashed checks, stock certificates, and contents of safe deposit boxes.
Hawaii continues to hold a massive amount of money sitting unclaimed due to the fact that people simply haven’t accepted the reality of unclaimed property. Far too often people dismiss missing money as a scam, because we’re always told “there’s no such thing as free money” so many times. Even those who are aware of these lost assets, most are not informed about the right way to perform a complete search for them.
Even for the handful of people who have been able to track down their cash, the state of Hawaii has them trying so hard to prove they are who they say they are, that they are often left not having claimed their money, despite the fact that they know that it is there. Hawaii insists that owners of unclaimed property to have a number of supporting documents to prove they’re the true owners of the money, and to prove that they in fact lived at the last known addresses listed in the records in the state database. The long and the short of it is that if you are attempting to collect forgotten funds in Hawaii, keep records as diligently as possible, or the experience of getting your money back may be more of a pain than it is worth.
Beyond having a hard time proving their identities to the state, citizens of Hawaii have a number of problems that can inhibit their unclaimed asset searches. One example would be, most Hawaiian’s who have previously lived in any other state often do not realize that the state of Hawaii will have absolutely no record of any unclaimed property from any other state. So if a person living in Hawaii once resided in Ohio, they would need to check Ohio’s databases, or the records of any other state they’d lived in.
In addition to searching outside of the Hawaiian Islands to track down money owed to them, many people still have trouble finding their money because they just do not have any idea how to begin their search within the state. One of the primary problems is that searchers often search only one time and then never revisit the matter again. The issue with doing this, is the fact that any properties that haven’tbeen handed over to the state, because their dormancy periods haven’t expired, will not appear in any state databases, because the state doesn’t have any idea that they’re out there. Many times even after the funds have been handed over, the state hasn’t added the listing to their unclaimed property list, so once again, a state database search would be fruitless. In both of these cases, a searcher could search the next day, week or month, and possibly find a record, but most people simply quit after one search.
For more tips on overcoming problems that often prevent searchers from claiming their unclaimed property, Hawaiian citizens would benefit greatly from getting assistance from an unclaimed property expert to aid them traveling through the maze of reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
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Money in mothballs
THOUSANDS of dollars in unclaimed cash is owed to Bayside community groups that do not exist.
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A recent report by the Chattanooga Times announced that millions of dollars in GA lottery winnings go unclaimed in GA and TN. Lottery officials say this is primarily caused by people that buy lottery tickets while they are driving through and forget to see if they have won or not.
According to another news report though, a larger amount of Georgia unclaimed money is being held by the State Treasurer’s Department. Hundreds of millions of dollars in abandoned assets are held by the state gov. and most residents are not aware that it’s out there. Catherine Westbrook, an elderly resident of the state was very aware though and became frustrated when she attempted to get a twelve hundred dollar check from a forgotten life insurance policy. “When I didn’t get it for two or three weeks, then I called and they would say, ‘No, the check wasn’t written, hasn’t been written’ — that’s all they would tell me.”, said Westbrook who, after receiving her check five months later, adds: “I don’t know why they take so long to write a check.”
GA’s Unclaimed Property Law or escheat law (which originates from feudal laws in Great Britain) states that forgotten and abandoned properties such as income tax refunds, bank accounts, uncollected wages, cash dividends on stocks and mineral deposits, uncashed checks, gift certificates, insurance premium overpayments, and others have to be handed over to the state after a specified ‘dormancy period’. This period for GA is between 1 and 5 years for unclaimed financial assets. “Dormant funds are remitted to the State of Georgia. Demand deposit accounts are deemed to be dormant after 12 months and time and savings accounts are deemed to be dormant after a period of five years without activity”, according to an official statement from Georgia’s State Treasurer’s. In a press release from the GA Department of Revenue’s Unclaimed Funds Unit, “The time that must elapse for property to be determined “abandoned” and turned over to the state varies depending on the type of property. For example, unclaimed wages and company liquidation proceeds must be turned over to the state after one year. The vast majority of unclaimed property must be turned over to the state five years after the last contact with the rightful owner. Time frames for other types of property are: safe deposit box contents must be forwarded to the state two years after the box was opened by the holding financial institution; money orders seven years after the issue date; and traveler’s checks 15 years from the issue date.”
The GA Revenue Commissioner has recently attempted to make some improvements in the way that the state department that handles missing cash in GA, like replacing an old automated call center system with operators who can check the status of claims immediately. Tim Shields, a manager with the revenue department, “From the time the claim form comes in the door, if we have everything we need, within 8 to 10 weeks, that person’s going to receive a check,”.
Greg Daugherty, Executive Editor of Consumer Reports, said “When I entered my own information, I didn’t find anything belonging to me, but I did find some money belonging to a great aunt of mine who has since died, and would have left it to me.” Greg is not alone, which is why utilizing the help of an unclaimed property expert is of the extremely important.
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Unclaimed Stock: Find Lost Shares
This week, I'm answering questions from readers, because there's an unclaimed money question that keeps coming up again and again. That tells me there's a need, so here goes. Here are two samples of the questions I've gotten:
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As more North Carolina unclaimed money flows in to to the state, than is returned to its rightful owners, the state’s missing cash pile has grown to a record $700 million! These unclaimed funds technically already belong to residents of the state whose only hurdle is learning how to correctly track down all possible claims.
According to the North Carolina Department of the Treasurer, there are over one hundred different types of property that may become “unclaimed” after being dormant for 1-5 years (depending on the type of asset). Of the one hundred kinds, North Carolina lists bank accounts, utility deposits, wages, stocks, insurance policy proceeds, contents of safe deposit boxes and bonds that have been forgotten as some of the most common.
As with unclaimed funds in the other 49 states, the largest roadblock in locating North Carolina unclaimed funds, is generally the knowledge of the searcher. To begin with, not many residents are even aware of these abandoned funds (or they would obviously have not forgotten them in the first place), and the few that are aware, simply haven’t been taught the right way to search.
With almost one and a half million accounts being held by the state, the chances of being owed money have never been better. Every N. Carolinian out there ought to get moving and begin their search. But those who are not educated on finding unclaimed assets might face a lot of wasted time and frustration, unless they first learn the WRONG way to search.
The majority of people seeking to reclaim their lost cash believe that if they can find a website to input their name and click a “search” button, they’ve done all that is needed. This couldn’t be more wrong. To begin with, most databases are not legitimate, and the few that are are only as good as who updates them.
Suppose a person checks their name on Friday, but the person in charge of updating the system hasn’t actually added a record in that person’s name until Saturday. The search would obviously be unsuccessful, despite the fact that the person was owed money. Unclaimed money databases are not updated in real time, so searching often is one of the best search methods to put in play if you would like to be confident in the results of your search.
Records that are out of date are not always the the state’s fault. If the asset just hasn’t been abandoned long enough to be technically considered unclaimed, then it wouldn’t have been turned over to the state. Strict laws dictate how found property is dealt with in each state, so you won’t deal with problems like a bank turning over a bank account after only 6 months, just because you hadn’t accessed it. So again, not finding a record doesn’t mean that you are not due a claim, and you should check again regularly.
As stated above, there are differing “dormancy periods” for each type of asset, which commonly range from 1-5 years. This means that after periods of inactivity exceed those dormancy periods, the companies who hold these properties are required to hand them over to the state if they are unable to locate the rightful owner on their own. At that point, the state will act as a custodian, essentially a “holder” until you claim your money.
There are quite a few problems, on top of the examples of search issues mentioned above that often befall new searchers, which is why it is all the more important that the people of North Carolina allow an unclaimed funds expert to provide them with a thorough guide for navigating the lost cash maze.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Officials say a state agency celebrating its 30th anniversary has reunited Ohioans with about $830 million they didn't realize was out there.
The TSA Makes $400,000 a Year Finding Loose Change
Airport travelers left $409,085.56 at security checkpoints across the country in 2010, simply by emptying the change in their pockets into those plastic bins and not picking it up again. The Transportation Security Administration says they collect all the unclaimed money in a jar that gets counted and sent to the finance office where it's added to the general operations fund. (John F. Kennedy …
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As the littlest state in the country, Rhode Island is justifiably known as “Little Rhody”, but there is nothing small about the amount of Rhode Island unclaimed money currently currently sitting in the RI Office of the General Treasurer. According to the office’s website, the state is now holding more than 124 million dollars of the peoples’ money, and the only thing stopping people from taking back their funds is knowledge and the ability to search correctly.
It is easy to understand why people have trouble accepting the reality of unclaimed funds because no one expects they can get free money. But “free” is not the proper term to describe these forgotten funds, because they technically already belong to the people who can claim them (except in situations where they come from a relative who passed away). So people who dismiss this phenomenon as some sort of scam are doing themselves a disservice by not realizing exactly where these properties come from.
According to the Office of the General Treasurer’s website, what follows are some of the most common forms of unclaimed properties in RI: account receivable credits and payables, insurance payments, safe deposit boxes, credit memos, gift certificates, stocks and dividends, bank accounts, refunds, wages. There are many other types, but those are the most common, and each is considered abandoned or “unclaimed” after a particular number of years of seeing no activity. After this dormancy period has passed, the holders have to to pass them along to the state for holding until the true owner makes a claim on them. The state never actually takes possession of them, which means there is not a time limit to claim missing money.
Even after learning the process by which funds become unclaimed, it is still tough to wrap our minds around the fact that there are hundreds of millions waiting to be found by RI residents, and tens of billions nationwide. It is tough to accept that people have simply forgotten about these properties, but the fact is they have. In fact experts estimate that in the United States 7 in 10 people are owed money. The difficulty is understanding how to track down and claim our cash.
More often than not, people get in their own way of locating their unclaimed funds by doing things like looking on the wrong sites and searching only one time. Not all unclaimed funds sites are equal. Many don’t have any actual missing money records, and even the handful that do often contain mostly outdated data. Even actual state records are notoriously not accurate due to the fact that they are not updated in real time. Given that assets are turned over all the time, and each type has a unique dormancy period, a listing for a given person’s name may not be added to the system until the day, week or month after they search, leaving them with the incorrect impression that they are not owed money.
Although in recent years RI has increased efforts to give back forgotten funds to the true owners, more money continues to come in than is returned to the owners, so the total will keep on growing, giving each citizen a greater chance of locating a claim. The state simply does not have the ability to efficiently track down everyone who has money coming to them so the best thing residents of RI can do is to study how to search like professional finders do, and then use those tactics to maximize their search potential.
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Unclaimed money in Bryan County
DO YOU HAVE UNCLAIMED MONEY? Bryan residents who have unclaimed money or safe deposit box can find out in the newest database available through bryancountynow.com.
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The State of Mississippi is home to some of my favorite things in life - sweet potatoes, rootbeer (invented in Biloxi in 1898), and catfish. Mississippi’s Treasury Department has also become home to something that’s on the top of my list and I suspect yours also - money. Mississippi unclaimed money, to be precise. “Nearly 1 in 5 Mississippians have money representing over $38 million that needs to be claimed,” stated Mississippi State Treasurer Tate Reeves in a recent press release. This is clearly good news for all of those families that suffered hurricane losses in recent years, and are now trying to deal with major setbacks in their financial standing.
When people pass away or move to a new home, often they don’t remember to leave a will or a forwarding address and this results in lost mail and inheritances. Financial notices, tax refund checks and the like get sent back to sender (the IRS, banks, insurance companies, etc.). According to Treasurer Reeves, “They are required by state law to turn them over to the Treasurer’s Office after a dormancy period. After that dormancy period is over, they turn it over to the state. We put a book out every three years and send it out through various media,”.
According to a recent story on Dateline NBC, a handful of lucky Mississippians were recently reunited with their missing money and it was actually a pleasant surprise for the majority of them. A Biloxi, Mississippi resident found out he had $30,000 from an investment his deceased father didn’t tell him about. A couple who had lost all of their possessions to the recent hurricane got $250 thousand from Mississippi unclaimed money. Another woman who was struggling to rebuild homes for herself and her mother got $100 thousand. Gordon White, was in the process of building his dream home when Katrina hit and he had to live in a trailer, but then got $200,000 from bank stock shares his father had never told him about. One of the largest claims handed out yet was to a Vietnam veteran who had been forced to retire from his job as a company supervisor because of post-traumatic stress. Turns out that he was owed nearly a million dollars from old company stocks he had forgotten about after retiring from said company.
If you or a relative has lived in Mississippi before, odds are good that a portion of the $38 million in Mississippi unclaimed money also belongs to you or someone in your family. Search for unclaimed money in Mississippi in addition to other states now. The national unclaimed money has now surpassed 35 billion dollars and the money is just sitting there, waiting for the true owners to step forward and claim it. Doing an online search for unclaimed money can be as easy as entering in a person’s name and other identification information in a state unclaimed money database. It becomes more confusing however, to do a full search in multiple states - a good idea if you have relatives living across the nation. The best way is to first learn the proper and thorough search tactics for doing productive unclaimed money searches online.
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Maine, the Pine Tree State, offers more than just the terrifyingly cold winters that the northeastern most part of the United States is known for. As of June 2007, the State Treasurer’s Office was holding over $131 million in Maine unclaimed money, divided up over more than 540 thousand accounts. That’s a lot of clams, or lobsters in Maine’s case.
Abandoned property is deemed “unclaimed” after it sits dormant for a specific period of time. Every state has its own unique dormancy periods for each type of property. In Maine, dormancy periods range from 1 year to 15 years, varying by account type, but the majority of Maine dormancy periods are three years. State law requires that assets be handed over to the state for safe keeping after the appropriate dormancy period has passed. At this point, the state treasurer is in charge of adding the record to their system, making it available for the true owner to locate and claim it.
Though tough to believe, across the country there really are tens of billions in unclaimed funds, waiting to be tracked down by the rightful owners. Missing money is often dismissed as a scam or myth because people just can’t accept that Americans could really just forget about or abandon that much money. All citizens need to do is contact their state treasurer to get confirmation that this cash are out there.
One main reason that unclaimed assets totals keep on growing in all states is because the states are consistently inefficient when it comes to giving these properties back to the citizens. A lot of states have stepped up efforts to put money back in the pockets of the people it is owed to, yet the amount handed over to the state each year continues to vastly outpace the amount given back to the people.
Aside from the fact that the majority of people still are not aware of the joys of claiming forgotten money, those that are usually do not have a clue how to search. Every unclaimed funds site is different and only a few are actually legitimate and maintain accurate records. Even state records are consistently inaccurate due to the fact that they are not updated in real time. While funds are handed over to the state constantly, there will be no searchable record until an employee physically adds the record to the system. On top of that, as noted, there are so many different dormancy periods that assets are always being handed over, so Maine’s records are constantly needing to be updated.
The number one rule in looking for missing cash is to search regularly or one can never be confident in the completeness of their search. But inaccurate records are only the beginning of the hurdles that often get in the way of average people just starting out on their search for forgotten properties.
Learning tactics from experts in tracking down unclaimed funds can jumpstart your search and help reunite you with your cash quicker than the average, uninformed citizen starting out without any direction. People really hoping to explore all possible claims would be smart to educate themselves before starting the process of locating abandoned assets.
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Philly cheese steaks, chocolates, soft pretzels and TastyKakes aren’t the only great things you might find in Penn.. There is also the Liberty Bell, Christmas trees (Indiana County is the Christmas Tree capital of the world), steel of course, and last but certainly not least… nice piles of cold hard cash. Actually, cash from Pennsylvania unclaimed money to be exact. You read that right - roughly $1 billion in unclaimed money is with the Penn. State Treasurer’s Office and it’s just waiting to be discovered by the residents it belongs to.
Owners of Penn. unclaimed properties are usually residents (or former residents) of the state who’ve either forgotten about or lost track of their assets by changing addresses and jobs. People often forget to leave behind a forwarding address after they move and this ultimately results in undelivered mail which can contain items like tax refund checks. Escheat laws require abandoned assets be turned over to the care of the state after a number of years wherein they go unclaimed.
According to the Penn. State Treasurer’s Office, “Each year, Treasury receives millions of dollars in unclaimed property from abandoned bank accounts, forgotten stocks, checks that have not been cashed, certificates of deposit, life insurance policies, safe deposit boxes, and other sources. Treasury maintains custody of this unclaimed property, holding assets indefinitely, until it is returned to its rightful owners.” Lost assets can also come from traveler’s checks, money orders, expired gift certificates, uncollected or unpaid salaries and wages, and safe-deposit box contents. As a matter of fact, $157,290 in unpaid wages and salaries were reported to have been owed by the Heinz company recently and the company allegedly failed to report this to the State. Under Penn. Unclaimed Money Law, unpaid payroll funds held by businesses have to be remitted to the Pennsylvania Treasurer’s Office every two years and every 5 years for unclaimed assets like uncashed company checks and stock shares abandoned by shareholders. Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robert Casey recently stated, “By law, all businesses, financial institutions and legal entities must report and return all unclaimed property to the Commonwealth.”
The Penn. Unclaimed Property Div. and the State Treasurer attempts to notify owners of unclaimed money in Penn. state-run unclaimed money databases, advertising campaigns, and through letters. “Annual advertising and letter campaigns are just some of the methods Treasury employs to seek the owners of over $1 billion in unclaimed property. Treasury sends representatives to statewide public events year-round, including malls, consumer expos and fairs. Treasury also works with members of the General Assembly in helping determine if their constituents have unclaimed property”, According to a statement issued by the Treasurer’s Office of Penn..
Considering the enormous size of the Penn. unclaimed money heap though, it’s obvious that the state’s efforts are inadequate for the large number (tens of thousands) of Pennsylvanians owed unclaimed monies each year. If you believe you or anyone you know might have unclaimed money in Penn. or any other state, there’s no time like the present to get some lost money back in your pockets. Do an unclaimed money search ASAP!
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