I love stories of people being reunited with their money. I absolutely love it!
How would you like to find $1650 in less than 5 minutes?
Check out this story from WRAL in North Carolina.
Clayton, N.C. — Since 5 on Your Side began helping consumers find unclaimed cash more than six years ago, at least 80 people have recovered more than $257,000.
That includes Kris Zawadski, of Clayton, who found out that it could come from another state.
The North Carolina Department of the State Treasurer holds unclaimed property – for example, money from bank accounts, leftover paychecks, old insurance policies – usually because a company has usually lost track of a consumer.
For Zawadski, it was nearly $1,650 from an escrow account held in her name by the state of Nevada, where she lived nearly 10 years ago before moving to North Carolina.
After seeing a 5 on Your Side story about how others found unclaimed money that belonged to them, Zawadski went online and did her own search for unclaimed property.
“I was stunned,” Zawadski said. “And I would imagine, like most people, you never in a million years thought you would lose track of $1,650. No, that’s a lot of money to lose track of.”
Zawadski plans to use the new found money to buy an air conditioner – not too exciting, she says, but necessary.
She says she does have one little extra something planned.
“I am going to do one fun thing. I am going to go see ‘Phantom of the Opera’ with my daughter,” Zawadski said “That’s going to be my birthday present this year.”
That almost brings a tear to my eye as I read it!
What would you do if you found unclaimed money in your name?
Though $1650 is a nice chunk of change, some claims have been much much higher.
Could you be due money?
Imagine if you found $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 or more? Good lord! That would be one heck of a vacation!
There is only one sure fire way to find out, and that is to conduct a thorough search from the official states unclaimed money bureau databases. I say official for a reason! Beware of sites which offer free unclaimed money searches before registering for their websites. Some sites are currently being investigated by the Attorney General for misleading search results displayed on their websites.
Our own investigation revealed you could search almost any name, including ficticious names like Elmer Fudd, Superman and Mickey Mouse and receive results stating claims were due in those names. We even made up names like “bub humbnhgy” and received returns showing money was due.
BLAH!
To ensure you search searching the official unclaimed money and property databases for all 50 U.S. states, plus learn everything related to missing money, including how to become a finder for profit, see http://www.unclaimedmoney.net
Unclaimed Money.net has every states database links, vital records information, pre-escheat information, unclaimed money news and personalized help from unclaimed money experts if need assistance by email and phone.
The WRAL NC missing money report states:
Nearly $33 billion in unclaimed property sits in state treasuries across the nation. In North Carolina, there are approximately 1 million people with $700 million unclaimed.
Every American needs to search at least once per year, and ShowMeMyMoney.com recommends searching every month as millions of dollars are added to the unclaimed property totals each year. Founder Russ Johnson says “if you have ever moved or left a job without leaving a forwarding address, you need to take a few minutes out of your day and search right now.”
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