Free Money for Savvy Consumers

Stake Your Claim

Almost every state keeps track of unclaimed money and property in their state treasury department. Unclaimed property can consist of money from a lot of different sources. Free money can come from uncashed checks. It can also come from bank accounts or safe deposit boxes that went unclaimed.

Paying for What?

There are some websites that require consumers to pay to have access to information regarding unclaimed property. However, you really don’t need to pay for this information. Each state treasury department has this information available free of charge to the public. If you can’t access your state’s unclaimed property database online, then you can call their office for further information. The possibility of free money is definitely worth the time involved in searching for it.

Is It Really Yours?

If you do search an online database and see an entry for your name in a state that you currently live in or lived in, there is a possibility that the money might be yours. Sometimes the information in the database contains a company name such as a former employer. If you recognize any information, then there is a possibility that the free money might, in fact, be yours. You will have to fill out paperwork, though, to prove that the money is yours.

Go Get It!

The amount of money in the unclaimed property database varies, and most databases don’t publicly list the exact dollar amounts. It can certainly be exciting to find free money in the form of unclaimed property in your name. Sometimes individuals find unclaimed property in their names from relatives that they never even knew. Other times the free money might actually be money they earned from a previous job that they long since forgot about. Either way free money for you can be a mouse click away, so check out online unclaimed property databases today.