State has money that might be yours
How to claim your cash
A Seattle woman has made it a bit of a crusade to get friends and acquaintances to claim money the state is holding for them.Jane Lotter has run the names of more than 30 people through claimyourcash.org, the free website run by the state's Department of Revenue, and has found some $6,000 owed them. One friend, she says, collected $834, another received over $1,000.
"It seems a shame that hundreds of millions are languishing at the Department of Revenue, when they could be helping the economy," says Lotter.
Among her tips:
In the "search" boxes: Type in your last name not just in the last name portion, but also as a first name. And type in common misspellings of your name.
Remember: This is a free service by the state. Don't fall for those emails advertising they'll find your uncollected funds for a fee.
Find information from elsewhere: Every state's information can be found at unclaimed.org , the website for the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators.
If you get a phone call from a Frank Marshall with the state's Department of Revenue, consider yourself a lucky person.
He's not contacting you looking for unpaid taxes, as some answering his calls fear.
Marshall wants to send you money, maybe even a big, big chunk of cash, from the state's kitty of $830 million in unclaimed assets, mostly money from long-forgotten bank accounts, customer overpayments, life-insurance policies, uncashed paychecks, mutual funds or safe-deposit boxes.
A year and a half ago, Walcott Denison, of Owendale, Mich., got a call from Marshall about $670,000 due him and his sister from the estate of their dad, who once lived in Seattle and had bought some securities.
"It was a bit of a shock. Holy smokes," remembers Denison.
For the past 10 years, Marshall has had a unique job with the state, the only person assigned to this task: finding people who have unclaimed property.
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It's free to claim the money, but you'll have to fill out a claim form, and if the amount is more than $50, you must have the form notarized, the department of State Treasurer's website says. To search the online database of unclaimed property visit
Remember: This is a free service by the state. Don't fall for those emails advertising they'll find your uncollected funds for a fee. Find information from elsewhere: Every state's information can be found at unclaimed.org, the website for the National
To search this year's list, as well as the unclaimed archives, visit the Unclaimed Property link on the Treasury website. The process to search for and recover lost assets is free. The Treasury is holding about $146 million in property from as far back
It's easy to search for yourself. Head to http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/Default.aspx to see if you have unclaimed money in the state of California. Chiang warns that there are websites out there that charge a fee to reunite you with your funds.
Since 1972, the unclaimed property program has returned nearly $250 million to more than 200000 Louisiana citizens. Louisiana citizens can search for unclaimed property free at anytime online at www.LATreasury.com or by calling 888-925-4127 8 am to
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