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One of the primary reasons for the government’s inability to return forgotten money to its owners, they claim, is the fact that they can not be located. Problem is, would would ever think people like Jennifer Lopez, Victoria Beckham, Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Angelina Jolie ,Marlon Brando, Keanu Reeves, ZsaZsa Gabor and Gerri Halliwell would be difficult to find? Those names and the names of several other famous people are some of the names in the CA missing money database but they haven’t heard from the employees in the California Unclaimed Money Division. They’re all owed checks for unclaimed money by CA ranging in amount from hundreds to the thousands as in the case of Angelina Jolie. This proves once again CA state officials’ interest in holding this money in the general fund for use in balancing the budget deficits for as long as they can. As a matter of fact, there was a recent ruling by a judge on CA abandoned assets, stating that the state wasn’t trying hard enough to locate the rightful owners and for a while halted the state’s s ability to take and hold it until a better policy of returning it to the rightful owners has been adopted.

The total a target=_blank href=’http://www.squidoo.com/tags/unclaimed+money+in+california’amount of unclaimed money in California/a averages five billion dollars annually – just imagine how much interest this earns for the state! Bill Palmer, an attorney in Sacramento who has fought in many cases involving California unclaimed property, said the state’s department was intended to be a lost and found for California residents. Instead, it was turned into a profit generating ‘business’ in recent years.

The hold on the seizure of property by California has recently been lifted and the new California State Controller, John Chiang, is making extra efforts in the form of widespread changes in improving how his office deals with California unclaimed money. There’s still a dire need though for Californians and residents of all other states across the U.S. to learn about the presence of these monies and on how to perform a thorough search for them and take back what belongs to them.

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– br bra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090227/SPORTS09/902279983 Patriots make states abandoned property list – Nashua Telegraph/abrThe New England Patriots, former Boston Bruins star Ray Bourque, and baseball analyst Peter Gammons are among the 40,000 businesses, individuals and charities to have unclaimed money or property being held by Massachusetts. The new list of unclaimed … brbra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/03/06/entertainment/doc49b1039fb7d91321397437.txt March is ‘Breaking Bad’ on cable, big month for ratings – New Haven Register/abrIf the TV news shows suddenly look a little breathless or obsessed with American Idol or other network fluff, it’s because we’re in a sweeps ratings time. The February sweeps period was postponed to March 5 to April 1, since the digital … brbra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://www.persfin.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4865822 Life companies sit with unclaimed benefits money pot – Personal Finance/abrMany life assurance companies are costing policyholders who have not claimed their benefits at maturity millions of rand every year. A survey by Personal Finance shows that if you do not respond to notifications that your policy is about to mature … brbra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://feeds.vnunet.com/c/554/f/7147/s/35c072a/l/0L0Saccountancyage0N0Caccountancyage0Cnews0C22377160Cirs0Eholds0E3bn0Eunclaimed0Etax/story01.htm IRS holds $1.3bn in unclaimed tax refunds (vnunet.com) /abr Judith Tydd, Accountancy Age , Wednesday 4 March 2009 at 09:42:00 US revenue service is advising taxpayers to file 2005 tax returns in claiming $1.3bn The Internal Revenue Service is holding $1.3bn (£930,000) in unclaimed tax refunds and is calling on taxpayers who failed to file a 2005 return to collect the money…. br