(Part 1 of 2)

In May of 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program is holding roughly 1.4 Billion dollars in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it is out there and the knowledge to track it down.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States continue to take in more unclaimed money annually than they give back to the people. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of people do not believe that there are truly tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have come to accept the truth about unclaimed properties, the best way to track these monies down eludes them more often than not.

The Prairie is State is one of just a few states that holds over a billion dollars on its own, which means if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even greater odds of finding a claim in your name, especially when you factor in that the state has just under 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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