(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly in addition to IL, state treasury departments across the nation continue to take in more unclaimed property every year than they return to the citizens. Because everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people do not believe that there are truly tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed across the country. Even for those few who have realized the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to find these monies eludes them in most cases.

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

Although there are many more, IL lists 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. Anyone who has had or knows someone who may have had one of these accounts at some point in the past is encouraged to search regularly.

(to be continued)

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