Found it. Not my mother, will have to let her know. Thank you, k

missingmoney.com

In Kansas it is called Kansascash and I put my name in and and found some money. I filled out some papers and got $90.00 back, which was a bonus because I have no idea where it came from. LOL

I just got a check from my old insurance company. I switched about 3 years ago. They said I never cashed a check they sent me. They were getting ready to send it to the place where unclaimed money goes. I sent the paperwork to them and it took over two months to get the check. It was over $1000! I don't think they sent me the check because I know I would've cashed it-lol

Ha, I just checked for my state and found almost $500! What a surprise and I wonder why those checks weren't forwarded to my new address?

This was so interesting! I didn't find anything with my name or my late husband's name. But in 2009, I inherited an estate, in a very complicated trust format, from my elderly aunt and cousin. I ran their names and found something that was in my uncle's name, who died in 1976. I'm the sole heir, uncle's estate going to my aunt, my aunt's going to my cousin, via trust, me the trustee and sole heir to the remains of the trust when my cousin died - and the trust was dissolved. This $ for my uncle, was a dividend on life insurance, from an old address where they lived that had to be in the 1930's. It would be so complicated to try to claim this and I'm not sure if it would be worth it. If it grew with interested for some period of time it could be worth it, if it's just a couple hundred dollars, I'd spend that on gas getting documents.

Maybe "Kansascash" is the service name the state chose to use in Kansas, but in most states, unclaimed escheated property can include much more than cash. Think about the contents of safe deposit boxes (as an example), whether financial or physical like jewelry or precious metals. Same treatment as unclaimed money balances.

Just checked it out, found some unclaimed $ for my son. Great thread!

I've checked before and all that's ever out there is something in my father's mother's name and he won't bother. He knew it was there, so he's made his choice ;)

ETA: I just checked again and there is an R _________ with my maiden name. I wrote to the state to ask them to check the first name. It's >$250 is all it says. It's in a city I've never lived in, so I doubt it's me. But why not try?

In Canada at least some of those lists, e.g. unclaimed bank accounts, (also drafts, etc.) are in the "Canada Gazette" (I think it's called), which is available in many libraries.

www.bankofcanada.ca/unclaimedbalances

Our banks are federally regulated, but other lists, e.g. of unclaimed issues related to credit unions, may be available in provincial jurisdictions.

Quite likely a with-it librarian will know some channels to travel to learn about other areas of the subject in your jurisdiction.

ole joyful

Banks in the US are chartered under the laws of either a state or the federal government - it doesn't matter. Most customers don't know the status of the banks where they have accounts because they pay no attention to it.

Account forfeiture laws (escheat) exist under state law and have nothing to do with bank charters or regulation. Indeed property forfeiture rules, different in every state, apply to items of value in any business that belong to someone else - claims or premium refunds of an insurance company, a deposit with the phone or utility company, or even a customer favorable balance on a charge account at a grocery store.

I was reading about missing money on another forum so I decided to search my name along with DH. I've checked in the past several times to no avail, but this time there were 2 finds. Both were under $100 and I think they are for Class Actions. I sent my paperwork in last week. We'll wait and see what happens.

OP here. I was just on the State of Michigan website and found some money for my brother. Sent him the info, won't he be surprised!

Glad you all are enjoying the thread, it helped me for sure.