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Anyone ever received "unclaimed property" from the state?

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arrfep

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So my aunt sends me an email with a screenshot of the Illinois Treasurer's website "Illinois Lost and Found" with a search done in my name. There are two results for unclaimed property, one between $10-100, and one over $100. But that's all the information it gives you. You have to make a written, notarized request for it.

I can't imagine what these could possibly be. I'm pretty on top of things when it comes to money being owed to me. Anybody have any luck retrieving a significant amount from their state? Where did the money end up coming from?
 
We once had to make a claim to the state of New York to reclaim some IBM shares that we didn't know we had. When I was an employee of IBM I was on the employee stock purchase plan and was getting certificates for 10 or 20 shares every couple of months. After I left IBM I thought we had sold all of our shares to buy a house, but many years later found another certificate for 15 shares in our safety deposit box. Because we had moved a few times, and IBM started getting mail returned from our address on record, the shares became property of the state of New York (IBM HQ is in NY).

After a little research and filing the necessary paperwork we got the shares back, including the fact that the shares had split twice, so we received 60 shares. That was a very welcome $7,000 find!! It took about 6 months to actually receive the shares once we made the filing.
 
Originally posted by: arrfep
Originally posted by: Anubis
my rents did, got quite a bit IIRC like 5K ish
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Do you know what the source of the money was?
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no i dont, but it had something to do with us moving back in the 90s, IDK wkat got lost or whatever
 
My dad had his name on the list many years ago. Turns out it was a long forgotten savings account. the balance wasnt large probably less than $50.
 
Originally posted by: effowe
Oh snap, I have 2 of those from previous addresses as well, thanks!
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No problem! I'll PM you my paypal address so you can send me a finder's fee 😀
 
I have 10 bucks on there, its wasnt worth it to me to send my SSN and drivers license to a random fax number to retrieve
 
My daughter, who's in her 20's now, found her name on the list of some random state. Turns out that a relative opened a bank account for her when she was born and never told us about it - wanted it to be a surprise. It was!
 
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