(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, IL 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 standing between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it is out there waiting to be claimed and the knowledge to locate it.

Sadly in addition to IL, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money every year than they hand back to the people. Because 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 that can be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have learned the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to find these monies eludes them most of the time.

The Prairie is State is one of those rare states that is holding over 1 billion dollars on its own, and that means that if you're a resident of IL then you have even greater odds of tracking down 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 IL database.

(to be continued)

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