It takes a significant bureaucracy to enforce laws that govern the collection of unclaimed money and to devise and implement strategies to find rightful property owners. In general a state collects more money than they return to rightful property owners through the course of one fiscal year. The collection, management, and efforts to find rightful property owners is a business in and of itself. Smaller states such asВ Maine list lesser amounts вЂ“ $131 million in 42,000 accounts. Pennsylvania has $1.5 billion and New Jersey holds at least $1 billion as well. New York, for instance, now holds over $14 billion in unclaimed money in roughly as many as 23 million accounts. Some examples of missing money may include:ДЄ good portion of all unclaimed money is held by individual states. Remember those savings bonds you got when your were young ? Do you know where they are? In total thereвЂ™s well over $70 billionВ awaiting claim in both state and federal data bases! Aside from state data bases вЂ“ there is over $16 billion sitting in federal coffers waiting to be found.

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Search for Everyone вЂ“ family (living and non-living), friends, and names of businesses.Дў. If you want to learn more about the subject matter of unclaimed property in general and require a more comprehensive search strategy, Check out our вЂњ What is Unclaimed MoneyвЂќ section. By clicking on the вЂњ Search Your StateвЂќ link you can freely search your state data base for unclaimed funds. is a great resource for information on the tens of billions of money and property being held today in state and federal unclaimed accounts. Unclaimed money is also referred to as unclaimed property and unclaimed funds, are personal assets that, for a variety of reasons, have become separated from their owners.

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