(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, IL State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program currently holds nearly 1.4 Billion dollars in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing standing between the cash and its true owners is the knowledge that it is out there and the knowledge to find it.

Sadly beyond just IL, state treasury departments across the country continue to take in more unclaimed money each year than they give back to the rightful owners. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people do not believe that there are really tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have realized the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to locate these monies eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of just a few states that holds over 1 billion dollars on its own, which means if you're a resident of IL then you have even better odds of tracking down a claim in your name, especially when you consider that the state has just under 13 million people and there are over 10 million names on the state's IL list.

(to be continued)

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