(Part 1 of 2)

In May 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program currently holds roughly 1.4 Billion dollars 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 knowledge to track it down.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the United States continue to take in more unclaimed property annually than they hand back to the rightful owners. Due to the fact that 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 that can be claimed nationwide. Even for the handful who have learned the truth about unclaimed properties, the best way to locate these monies eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of only a few states that holds over 1 billion dollars on its own, which means if you are a resident of Illinois then you have even better odds of finding a claim in your name, especially when you consider that the state has less than 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois database.

(to be continued)

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Email Story – WJFW-TV
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