(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" program currently holds roughly $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 waiting to be claimed and the ability to locate it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States keep on taking in more unclaimed funds annually 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 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 come to accept the truth about unclaimed cash, 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 1 billion dollars on its own, and that means that if you're a resident of Illinois then you have even better odds of finding a claim in your name, especially when 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.

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

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