(Part 1 of 2)

In May of 2007, Illinois State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias stated that the state's "Cash Dash" abandoned asset program is holding almost 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 and the knowledge to find it.

Sadly in addition to Illinois, state treasury departments across the nation continue to take in more unclaimed money annually than they give back to the rightful owners. 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 cash, the best way to find these monies eludes them more often than not.

The Prairie is State is one of those rare 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 after you factor in that the state has less than 13 million people and there are over 10 million names on the state's Illinois list.

(to be continued)

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