Let’s think back to a time from much earlier in our country’s history. James Buchanan was President, the “carpet sweeper” (aka, the vacuum) was just launched, and the recently-invented jellybean and the postcard took America by storm. Oh, and a national income tax of 3% had just been levied on citizens who earned more than […]
Can money (not cash bills) really get lost?
Remember being a kid and thinking about where money actually came from? Could they print as much as they wanted you thought? It was hard to fathom how much money it cost to buy a house, or a car, or at a certain point in your life, even an ice cream cone. As we all […]
Why do you have to keep checking to see if you have unclaimed funds?
If you have ever played Whack-a-Mole at a carnival you’re halfway to understanding the complexity of unclaimed funds in the United States. In addition to each state having its own rules to find and claim the unclaimed money being held, there are completely different rules for federal accounts, court accounts, corporate accounts, etc… We could […]
Pay to get my lost money back?
Read an article that discusses the existence of unclaimed funds and you may notice that the author usually suggests that you not pay to recover your lost funds. Visit a website of one the agencies holding unclaimed funds, and you will also notice the suggestion that you not pay to recover your lost funds. What […]