(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 nearly $1.4 Billion in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing getting between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it is out there waiting to be claimed and the ability to locate it.

Sadly beyond just Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed funds every year than they return to the rightful owners. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, the majority of people refuse to 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 find these monies eludes them more often than not.

The Prairie is State is one of just 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 greater odds of finding a claim in your name, especially when you factor in that the state has just under 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's Illinois database.

(to be continued)

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