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The state of California’s unclaimed funds program takes in about three hundred million dollars every year. Why should you care? Well, if you or anyone you know is or has been a resident of the Golden State (or had any kind of business dealings, whether you were aware of it or not), a chunk of that big pile of California lost assets might easily belong to you!

Under the state of California unclaimed funds law, lost money such as forgotten savings and checking accounts, cash and stock dividends, mineral deposits, uncashed checks and money orders, state of California unclaimed tax refunds, salary checks, gift certificates, and other financial assets are turned over to the Treasury Dept. if the rightful owners don’t locate them within a given period. This ‘dormancy period’ varies from state to state, but in California it is 3 years. These abandoned assets then head to the California unclaimed property division, where they wait in the state’s general fund until they’re returned to the people they truly belong to. This is where officials working for the state who handled California unclaimed cash were recently criticized. It appears that they have been eager to locate and collect the lost assets from the various establishments holding them but but were less than enthusiastic about tracking down the owners in the California unclaimed funds database.

(to be continued)

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