(Part 1 of 2)

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

Sadly beyond just IL, state treasury departments across the United States continue to take in more unclaimed property each year than they hand back to the citizens. Due to the fact that 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 that can be claimed across the country. Even for those few who have realized the truth about unclaimed assets, the best way to track these monies down eludes them more often than not.

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

(to be continued)

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