Despite returning a record $26.2 million in Connecticut unclaimed money in 2006, there are still tens of millions of dollars in missing money waiting to be located and claimed by the rightful owners - average citizens who simply abandoned or forgot about these assets for one reason or another.
Recent efforts by the Connecticut State Treasurer's "The Big List" program have handed over $110 million back to CT residents in just the last 8 years, but more money continued to come in than went out so the heaps of unclaimed property held by the government continue to grow. Due to the fact that new forgotten funds outpace the return rate, the odds of finding a claim for any given name get better all the time.
A lot of people wonder how unclaimed money could be real because the fact that across the country there are billions of dollars waiting to be discovered by the rightful owners simply boggles the mind. Why would these people abandon their money? Are they crazy? No, they're just normal people, and it has been estimated that 7 out of every 10 Americans are due some type of claim!
So how is all this cash being abandoned without the owners realizing it? In most cases it is as simply as forgetting about a checking or savings account that wasn't a primary account, or not providing a forwarding address to all the necessary people when a person moves. Additionally, the State Treasury's website lists the following as common types of lost money in Connecticut:
"...un-cashed checks; deposits; stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares; travelers' checks or money orders; life insurance policies; and safe deposit box contents..."
As these different types of accounts lay untouched past their dormancy periods (unique for each account type in each state), they are turned over to the state for safe keeping until the owner steps forward to claim them. So if the dormancy period on a given account doesn't run out for another year or two, someone searching today will find now record of their missing money, even though it's out there in pre-escheat, meaning the dormancy period has not expired. Additionally, states have no uniform law dictating when the records are actually added to their system so a person could theoretically search and find nothing, while the record is added the following day, week, month or year. The only way to be thorough about your search is to search regularly.
In addition to limiting themselves to one search, inexperience searchers often search only the state they live in, not knowing that there is the potential for unclaimed funds owed to them in states they've never lived in or even been to, for a variety of reasons such as employers' corporate headquarters or insurance company headquarters.
The issues mentioned above, among others, can be worked around once people become educated on proper search tactics. Seeking the advice and guidance of experienced unclaimed asset finders often makes the difference in whether or not someone with limited knowledge in these matters finds all money owed to them or not.
Unclaimed money and property expert Russ Johnson has been assisting Americans in finding their unclaimed money online since 1997. His site, http://www.unclaimedmoney.net, is updated regularly and offers guaranteed official searches for Connecticut unclaimed money and missing money across the country.
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