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Unredeemed U.S. savings bonds worth about $28 billion sit waiting for their owners
Millions of paper savings bonds — bought as birthday gifts, wedding presents, and payroll deductions decades ago — have quietly stopped earning interest and now...
Life insurers hold about $2.4 billion in unclaimed death benefits that heirs must claim
A life insurance policy only pays out when someone knows to ask for it, and that single gap is why an estimated $2.4 billion in...
Louisiana just returned a record $70.9 million in forgotten money, about $900 a person, and a free state search shows if any is yours
Tens of thousands of Louisiana residents just got money back they did not know they were owed. State Treasurer John Fleming announced on July 20,...
$308 million in forgotten cash went back to Illinois residents this year, a record, and a free state search shows whether any is yours
Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced that $308 million in forgotten cash was returned to residents, businesses, and nonprofits this year, a single-year record that...
The Treasury holds $29.7 billion in matured savings bonds a free search can find
Millions of Americans own savings bonds that stopped earning interest years or even decades ago, and the federal government is still holding the money. The...
Texas is holding more than $10.5 billion in unclaimed cash
Millions of Texans have money sitting in state custody that they have never claimed, and the pile keeps growing. The Texas Comptroller’s office returned a...
$29 billion sits in U.S. savings bonds that quietly stopped earning interest, and a free site finds yours
Tens of billions of dollars in U.S. savings bonds have quietly stopped earning interest, and the people who own them may not realize it. The...