(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" program is holding nearly 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 and the knowledge to track it down.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States keep on taking in more unclaimed property 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 waiting to be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have come to accept the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to locate these monies eludes them in most cases.

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

(to be continued)

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Former Colo. Worker Stole $11M in Unclaimed Tax Refunds for Love – FOX News
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