(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the country keep on taking in more unclaimed property every year than they hand back to the rightful owners. 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 waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for the handful who have learned the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to find these monies eludes them more often than not.

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

(to be continued)

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