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MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds. [1] It was established in November 1999, [2] as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree. [3] By December of that year, 10 states ...
To prove just how common unclaimed money is, Nguyen found several claims for members of the TODAY staff: One for TODAY contributor Ally Love Four for Craig Melvin, including one for over $100
Across the nation, more than $20 billion is waiting to be reclaimed by citizens who may not even know they may be owed cash from "unclaimed property," which can include uncashed paychecks, refunds ...
Unclaimed property laws in the United States provide for two reporting periods each year whereby unclaimed bank accounts, stocks, insurance proceeds, utility deposits, un-cashed checks and other forms of "personal property" are reported first to the individual state's Unclaimed Property Office, then published in a local newspaper and then ...
The largest class of landowners are the provincial governments, who hold all unclaimed land in their jurisdiction. Over 90% of the sprawling boreal forest of Canada is provincial Crown land. [ 2 ] Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [ 3 ] 94% of the land in British Columbia , [ 4 ] 95% of Newfoundland and ...
Unclaimed property can also take the form of inactive checking and savings accounts, abandoned safety deposit boxes, uncashed checks, and forgotten investments. This misplaced money is usually the ...
A concept derived from res nullius by allegory is terra nullius. [7] Using it, a state may assert control of an unclaimed territory by occupying it.. This terra nullius principle was used to justify colonization of much of the world, as exemplified in the competition for influence within Africa by the European powers (see the scramble for Africa).
The truth is, there is in excess of $2 billion in unclaimed property, ranging from $50 to thousands of dollars, money just waiting to be claimed by its rightful owner.