(Part 1 of 2)

In May of 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" program currently holds almost $1.4 Billion in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing standing between the cash and its true owners is the knowledge that it is out there and the ability to locate it.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money every year than they return to the citizens. 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 really tens of billions of dollars waiting to be claimed across the country. Even for the handful who have realized the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to find these monies eludes them in most cases.

The Prairie is State is one of just 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 after you factor in 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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