Monday, January 7, 2008

Search For Unclaimed Money

A national survey at the beginning of the '08 on New Year's resolutions showed that more Americans favored financial well-being over physical health. A larger percentage of respondents prioritized prosperity in '08 compared those who had physical fitness on the top of their list. Maybe these people had some premonition of things to come, but I personally believe in the saying that health is wealth. However, I also believe in another saying: “Money makes the world go 'round”. In the face of a threat of another recession, finding ways to get extra cash in our pockets is becoming more and more difficult. Not a lot of Americans are aware, but doing an unclaimed money search in the various State Treasury databases across the country is one of the easiest and quickest ways of doing this.

Experts say there's an excess of $35 billion worth of unclaimed money and property that Americans have lost track of. The reason the national unclaimed property fund got so huge is because most people don't bother doing an unclaimed money search since they aren't even aware they're missing money. The amount of unclaimed money in New York for example, has already reached whopping 9 billion dollars and millions more are added to the state's unclaimed property fund annually. The California unclaimed money pile comes next at $5 billion with almost 9 million names on the State's unclaimed property list of owners.

Fight-off that 'recession depression' and get lost cash in your pockets now. Find out if you are owed money by the government and search for unclaimed money and property in all the states you've lived in.

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