Unclaimed Property, Unclaimed Money
Examples of unclaimed property include cashier checks, utility deposits and other refunds, mineral interest or royalty payments, dormant bank accounts and the contents of abandoned safe deposit boxes.
- Unclaimed insured deposits up to the insurance limit
- Dividends declared on excess deposits over the insurance limit
- Dividends declared on general creditor claims
- Funds distributed to the shareholders of the failed institution
Did you know that few years ago almost 1.5 billion dollars worth of unclaimed property and assets were returned to the owners. There are laws and rules in each state in United States regarding unclaimed properties and assets. There are many programs to find the onwers of those assets and properties. There is over 32 billion dollars of assets being safeguarded by states until owners have been identified.
Common forms of unclaimed property could include savings accounts, deposit boxes, stocks, uncashed dividens, insurnce payments or refunds, life insurance proceeds, trust distributions, traveler's checks. Most companies and organizations are required by law to send lost or unclaimed assets to the state the state then has programs that tries locating the owners of these unclaimed assets so they can return themto their rightful owners. You can search databases to see if there is any unclaimed property that you might be entitled to.
Nationwide Unclaimed Property Resources
- Bank Failures
- Credit Union Unclaimed Shares
- Damaged Money
- Economic Stimulus Payments Not Yet Claimed
The IRS has accounted for about 75 percent of the approximately 20 million Social Security and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries identified as being potential stimulus recipients. All but 5.2 million of those have either filed a return, filed a joint return or were not eligible for a stimulus payment (for example, they were claimed as a dependent on another’s return).To reach the remaining recipients, the IRS is working with national partners, members of Congress and state and local officials to ensure that assistance to eligible people is available.
- Get Your Money Back – "Investors Claims Funds" and Class Actions
- Government Benefits
- HUD/FHA Mortgage Insurance Refunds
- Pension Funds from Former Employers
When a company's pension plan is transferred to PBGC, the company is sometimes unable to locate persons who participated in that plan and is hence unable to give them any benefits they may be owed. PBGC is now continuing to look for them through the "Missing Participants" service. - Savings Bonds Calculator
- Savings Bonds Interest
- Savings Bonds Recovery
- Tax Refund Status
- Tax Violations
- Undelivered Tax Refunds
- Unclaimed Property Search
Unclaimed property searches for all US states.
Unclaimed Property by State
- Alabama Unclaimed Property
- Alaska Unclaimed Property
- Arizona Unclaimed Property
- Arkansas Unclaimed Property
- California Unclaimed Property
- Colorado Unclaimed Property
- Connecticut Unclaimed Property
- Delaware Unclaimed Property
- District of Columbia Unclaimed Property
- Florida Unclaimed Property
- Georgia Unclaimed Property
- Hawaii Unclaimed Property
- Idaho Unclaimed Property
- Illinois Unclaimed Property
- Indiana Unclaimed Property
- Iowa Unclaimed Property
- Kansas Unclaimed Property
- Kentucky Unclaimed Property
- Louisiana Unclaimed Property
- Maine Unclaimed Property
- Maryland Unclaimed Property
- Massachusetts Unclaimed Property
- Michigan Unclaimed Property
- Minnesota Unclaimed Property
- Mississippi Unclaimed Property
- Missouri Unclaimed Property
- Montana Unclaimed Property
- Nebraska Unclaimed Property
- Nevada Unclaimed Property
- New Hampshire Unclaimed Property
- New Jersey Unclaimed Property
- New Mexico Unclaimed Property
- New York Unclaimed Property
- North Carolina Unclaimed Property
- North Dakota Unclaimed Property
- Ohio Unclaimed Property
- Oklahoma Unclaimed Property
- Oregon Unclaimed Property
- Pennsylvania Unclaimed Property
- Rhode Island Unclaimed Property
- South Carolina Unclaimed Property
- South Dakota Unclaimed Property
- Tennessee Unclaimed Property
- Texas Unclaimed Property
- Utah Unclaimed Property
- Vermont Unclaimed Property
- Virginia Unclaimed Property
- Washington Unclaimed Property
- West Virginia Unclaimed Property
- Wisconsin Unclaimed Property
- Wyoming Unclaimed Property