States' 'unclaimed property' is people's own money from forgotten bank accounts, unused gift cards and other assets that ...

Image source: Getty Images Last year, I ran an unclaimed money search on myself. Came up totally empty. But then I ran the same search for my neighbor -- and we found a $201 account credit he never ...

Somewhere in a government database right now, there may be a check with your name on it. Not a rebate you applied for, not a ...

(NEXSTAR) – Could you use some extra funds to offset all your holiday spending? Your state may have some money you’re owed, just waiting to be claimed. Nationwide, state officials (typically the ...

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Anyone in Maryland who might have lost track of uncashed checks, overpayments or safe deposit boxes has a good chance of finding even decades-old unclaimed property in a little-known division of a ...

WASHINGTON — One in seven people has lost or forgotten money just waiting to be claimed. If you are unsure whether you are one of these people, it is pretty easy to check. In D.C. alone, 32,068 ...

Like a bottomless reservoir, money keeps pouring into Texas’ unclaimed property fund, but it never gets full. Millions of ...

Some New Yorkers could be sitting on a windfall. If you are among those owed money from forgotten bank accounts, uncashed checks or unused gift cards, retrieving those long lost funds just got easier.

Wolcott, argued this session that the Treasurer’s office should be doing more to return unclaimed property to people, not less.