(Part 2 of 2)

The total amount of unclaimed money in CA averages $5 billion annually – imagine how much interest this earns for the state! Bill Palmer, an attorney in Sacramento who has fought in numerous cases involving California unclaimed funds, said the state’s department was intended to be a lost and found of sorts for Californians. Sadly, it has been turned into a profit generating ‘business’ in the past few years.

The ban on the seizure of property by California has now been removed and the new CA State Controller, John Chiang, is making extra efforts in the form of widespread changes in improving how his office handles California missing money. There’s still a great need though for residents of California and the other 49 states across the U.S. to be informed about the presence of these monies and on how to do a thorough search for them and take back what belongs to them.

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State helps solve mystery of lost assets – Courier-Post
Tom Noe of Audubon recently read a Courier-Post newspaper and found his name listed among thousands of others in a legal advertisement of unclaimed money being held by the state. On Tuesday, he drove to a Burlington County seminar to talk to state …

$174 Million Jackpot Unclaimed (NBC Philadelphia)
Both winning tickets were sold in our area. Each is worth $46.6 million. Who the heck sits on a stash of cash like that for six weeks?

Unclaimed funds? Now get interest – Cincinnati.com
Since the 1960s, the state has held in a trust fund millions of dollars from uncashed checks and dormant banking and other accounts. A 1991 amendment by the Legislature specifically stated that people who come forward for the unclaimed money cannot …

Ohio must pay interest on unclaimed funds – Cincinnati.com
The Ohio Supreme Court has handed a little tax-season gift to thousands of people who have drawn money from the state’s unclaimed-funds account over the past 18 years. People who have received funds from the account since 1991 are entitled to …

Combs: It’s your money, ask for it! – Del Rio News-Herald
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs urged residents of Del Rio and Val Verde County to research unclaimed property and money that may be owed them during her visit here Friday. Combs, who was the first woman elected as Texas Agriculture Commissioner, was …