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I'll have to give the State of California Controller's Office credit where it is due. Three times now they have tracked me down to give me money that was mine. Three times! Each time the amounts were very respectable. Why didn't I know about this at the time the refunds were issued?
The really fishy part of all this? The last two times, I was contacted by a law firm three months prior to being contacted by the State Controller's Office. I guess those refunds/unclaimed properties become public knowledge at some point. And then the law firm comes in, they see who is owed what and start sending out letters.
Do you have any Unclaimed Property sitting in a State Bank Account somewhere? If you've gotten a letter and/or email from a legal firm claiming that you may have unclaimed property, there is a good chance that you do. ;)
Marshall
In Pennsylvania the state runs a web site that lists unclaimed property
Massachusetts does the same. The Boston Globe runs full page listings as well, at least once a year. Several local, weekly, papers also cull the list for unclaimed property for that particular town, and run a full page listing for as many weeks as it takes to publish them all.
No doubt it helps the newspapers -- if for no other reason than the "warm and fuzzy" factor.
I was 5, there was $5 in a bank account.
I have an equivalent of $10 in a bank account where I used to live, and hasn't gone back for years now. I don't know what happened to that. :)
It was really weird watching them talkiing to the relatives of the deceased like the deceased was still alive - they would lkind of touch on what about great uncle fred.
Saw one where the living really laid into the character of the dead person, only to inherit over £100K from them.
