If a business, financial institution, or government owes you money that you have not collected, it is considered unclaimed money or property. Most unclaimed money is held by state governments, sourced from bank accounts, insurance policies, or state agencies.
Here is the government website with more information: https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money
From there, you can read more into it and search for a specific state you’ve lived in to see if you have unclaimed money or property.
The real hack is to search through all states at once using https://missingmoney.com/
I had about $850 in unclaimed money from a state where I never resided, as the company I worked for was based there. Had I not looked through all states using the above link, I would have never been able to recover those funds.
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