Top 10 Sources Of Unclaimed Money

If you follow the news or have even just been watching it lately then you may keep hearing this term ‘unclaimed money’ being thrown around in the media and by your local government. Or maybe you have been reading the local paper or even catching up on the nationwide news too. Do all of these claims keep you wondering just what exactly does it mean? How can money just go unclaimed, lost or missing? To properly address and answer this question, we need to look at the sources of unclaimed money.

Let’s look at ten of those most common sources now.

1. Utility and Rental Deposits: Many people pay deposits and then forget about them. When it comes to send the deposit back, the person oftentimes moves and fails to leave a forwarding address to the utility or rental company in question, resulting in that money becoming unclaimed money.
2. Federal And State Tax Returns: Are you sure you’ve received all the refunds for every tax return you’ve filed? The state and/or federal government may be holding unclaimed money in your name right now.
3. Alimony: Make sure the court isn’t holding any back alimony support.
4. Child Support: Just like alimony, child support oftentimes becomes backed up because of all the court cases on the docket. This is another big source of unclaimed money.
5. Inheritance: How do you know a long lost relative didn’t die, leaving you a millionaire? There’s only one way to find out and that’s to conduct search for unclaimed money.
6. Abandoned Bank Accounts: Your bank account only had a few dollars in it so you left it alone. Now it’s grown because of interest and has become unclaimed money just waiting on you to claim it.
7. Insurance Payouts: Have you ever been in an accident or had a calamity happen to you that required an insurance payout? Did you collect all of that payout?
8. Court Settlements: If you’ve ever had to go to court and you won your case, you never know if you have court fees or a settlement waiting on you.
9. Final Paychecks: Many people fail to cash the final paycheck after leaving a job. Did that happen to you?
10. Contests And Sweepstakes: Hey, stranger things have happened. Conduct a search for unclaimed money right now and you may find money from any one of these sources, or from a few of these sources of unclaimed money combined.

You never know how much you’ll find until you conduct an online search. Search today and you may find money from any one of these sources of unclaimed money. Good luck.