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In May of 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" program currently holds almost 1.4 Billion dollars in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its true owners is the knowledge that it's out there waiting to be claimed and the knowledge to find it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States keep on taking in more unclaimed property each year than they give back to the people. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of people refuse to believe that there are really tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for the handful who have realized the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to track these monies down eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of only a few states that holds over 1 billion dollars on its own, which means if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even better odds of finding a claim in your name, especially after you consider that the state has less than 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois database.

Although there are many more, Illinois names the following as the most common types of missing money: abandoned savings and checking accounts, unpaid wages or commissions, stock, bonds, mutual funds, un-cashed dividends, customer deposits or overpayments, credit balances, refunds, money orders, travelers checks, paid-up life insurance policies, safe deposit box contents. People who have had or know someone who might have had one of these types of accounts at some point in the past is encouraged to search regularly.

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