wow...i'll claim oh....$72,000.00

its so petty...i mean come on...just gimme...

Dibs!


/it's all mine now - I won

Send me your bank account number and your p.i.n. so I can deposit the cash for you.

dibs

aww - lost out on my millions by 1 second.

/back to buying lottery tickets
//jk

damn it

can i have yur stuff?

oh noes they tuks are monies

Fark Georgia.

//they racist
///Google Genarlow Wilson

Oh yeahhh.. That's where I put it all!

zilch365: Send me your bank account number and your p.i.n. so I can deposit the cash for you.

:-D OK!!!


185341

and mah pin is 1851

I'll claim the 1985 chevy citation with the blown transmission

Thing is, most of these build up $0.25 at a time. Someone has an account somewhere, but hey, it only has a dime in it and it costs a quarter to mail the "please close this" letter. So they leave it.

My parents theoretically have a safe deposit box somewhere with a brick of silver in it, bought at the worst time during a spike in silver prices in the late '70s. The problem with claiming it now is that the penalties for not paying the rental all these years will likely wipe out whatever one could get for the silver, and then some. (They moved away from the area, forgetting about the box. Now they're just ignoring it. I should probably bug them to go get it, or at least ask what it would cost to ransom the damn silver.)

/procrastination FTL

I can has lifetime TF subscription now?

A federal judge recently put a stop to California's "unclaimed" property program. They were seizing assets and not doing enough to locate the owners. The state shredded documents and photographs out of safe deposit boxes, sold family heirlooms on Ebay, people got cheated out of profits on stocks. It is a disgrace. But it brings $400 million a year to the state's treasury, so it probably won't be changed that much.

Christobevii3
I'll claim the 1985 chevy citation with the blown transmission

Monkey knife fight you for it.

poxic:

I'm guessing that it has been approprated for 'costs' long ago. If not then it would be good story... worthy of Ric R. himself, at least.

also... silver is waaaaaaay up in the last 2 yrs, so might be worht looking in to...

Make sure you have no back taxes first folks. That part is gonna sting ya.

Pretty neat, through the unclaimed.org link there I tracked down something being held for my girlfriend's mom.

A few days ago I found CA's unclaimed property page and found I had a few bucks there from some refund. Nice.

POXIC:

http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx

It's mine! It's mine... haha, yeah.. Sorry, everyone, hate to spoil it for ya, but it's mine. I'll just be taking it now. Please, just get out of my way. Thank you, thank you. Have a good day.

/Runs

As usual, we CA granola-chawing, tree-copulating (numb) nuts do it far differently... And MUCH more damningly... Far from having a helpful? Georgia-crat call us in order to reunite us with a lost or forgotten heirloom, we have a mere three year standby on the seizure of our forgotten or abandonned property... And after that, the CA government can seize our property WITHOUT telling us...

...and the punchline: There is almost NO recourse.

From Tom McLintock's blog... (http://www.carepublic.com/blog.html?domain=tom_mcclintock&blog_id=88&category_i d=&start=0&arcyear=2007&arcmonth=3&curyear=&curmonth=&curday=)

"Most Californians don't know that when they set aside money for a retirement account or put family heirlooms in a safe deposit box and leave it for more than three years, the state seizes and liquidates their holdings under a process called "escheat." My legislation to address this travesty was killed yesterday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here's what I said:

Escheatment is actually a feudal concept that arose from the despotism of the dark ages. It stemmed from the principle that the feudal lord owned all within his realm, and when a person died or disappeared without heirs, his lands were property of the lord.

In 1958, this concept was revived in California, replacing the feudal lord with the state government, and the Controller was empowered to seize property that had been inactive for more than seven years."

So, in effect, "Good Luck, Sucker, if you trust your valuables to the G!"

...but you already knew that.

HOLEINMYBUCKET:

http://goldinfo.net/silver600.html

/in "1998 dollars", silver was $25-40 per oz in late '70s (not sure when the folks bought)
//in "2007 dollars", it's around $13 now
///worst. investment. decision. ev... nah, there's been worse

////will still suggest that the folks look into it

The Georgia Revenue Department has $683 million dollars of uncashed checks, bond dividends, stocks, coins and abandoned safe-deposit boxes just waiting for someone to claim them

FTFY.

SWEET! I'm in the process of transferring to Georgia!

/cha-ching

IF you use the $, you don't need to say 'dollars'. It's not 683 million dollars dollars.

LukeA: IF you use the $, you don't need to say 'dollars'. It's not 683 million dollars dollars.



beg to differ.

/dollar dollar bill, y'all

now, imagine the State "borrowing" all that money ...

/social security

phenolphthalein

Oh attractive and successful African-American please!

This is a sting. They're looking for Confederate sympathizers.

$422 million of that is mine. I visited Atlanta with my family in the summer of 1995, and my shorts had a hole in the pocket.

We found 683 million dollars.
--Oh that's mine. 683 million dollars fell out of my pocket.
But this was in quarters.
--Right. I heard it break when it hit the ground.

Doing a search on the CA Unclaimed Property site pulled up 1214 matches for property belonging to the State of CA, held by the State of CA, but unclaimed by the State of CA.

geetus: Dibs!

/it's all mine now - I won

Curses, that's exactly what I came here to do.

Search here:

http://services.dor.ga.gov/unclaimedproperty/main.aspx

The Georgia Department of Revenue is a joke. They put out microfiche full of accounts that have been claimed years ago. Of that $683 million, $625 million has already been claimed, but has yet to be cleared from the books. Of the remainder, the vast majority is already under review. Slim pickens.

/McGibbony that poontang.

From the article:
http://www.missingmoney.com/

I think I found property for/from two relatives.

How difficult would it be for them to get some go-getting young Nigerian to help them get rid of "the monies"

$86,000 UGD Monies (new window)

stucka: From the article:
http://www.missingmoney.com/

I think I found property for/from two relatives.


Yeah, I just found $ for two friends and something that belonged to my grandmother (passed away last year). Worth checking out.

Fellow Californians:

On June 1, 2007, a federal court in Sacramento directed the State Controller's Office to not accept any unclaimed property until new laws are passed which allow this office to adequately notify owners that, unless claimed, lost property being held by a business will be transferred to the State for safekeeping.

The court injunction also continues the "no-notice, no-sale" policy that I implemented shortly after taking office in January to protect the contents of safe deposit boxes and stocks, bonds and other securities.

The original purpose of California's unclaimed property law was for the State to both (a) safeguard lost property from being used by private interests for their own gain, and (b) reunite the lost property with their rightful owners. Unfortunately, decades of policy decisions and statutory changes have created an unclaimed property program that cannot live up to its original intent, and as a consequence, prompted the court to intervene.

I have sponsored comprehensive reform legislation (SB 919 by Senator Mike Machado) and am working diligently with the Legislature and the Governor to fix the state's unclaimed property laws. Specifically, this bill will allow the State to provide timely notice to all property owners, restore interest paid on claims and impose strict penalties on banks, utility companies and other businesses that fail to comply with the law and notify their customers of unclaimed property they are holding. If adopted, I am confident that this proposal will fix the unclaimed property law and restore the public's confidence that their lost property will be safeguarded by the State until they claim what is rightfully theirs.

However, while the State is not receiving any escheated property at this time, property owners are encouraged to continue to search for their unclaimed, lost or forgotten property through this website. It is my goal and intent to reunite property owners with their property in a timely manner.

Sincerely,

JOHN CHIANG,
California State Controller

that is from the california state controller's office website:

http://www.sco.ca.gov/col/ucp/

"Randolph!"
"Yes Mortimer?"
"We're back in business!"

feral1404 Most Californians don't know ... the state seizes and liquidates their holdings under a process called "escheat."

The term escheat is used in all 50 and the process is very similar, and no they aren't taking retirement funds.

The world does not revolve around California.

Some of that is legitimately mine.

As a former former foster parent getting out-of-state reimbursement for the kids was always a pain. Georgia was the only state that NEVER paid a cent.

Last year, I was cruising around in the Minnesota unclaimed funds section, and saw my neighbor's name with money due from State Farm Insurance. I gave him a call, turns-out, he'd accidently thrown away an $1,800 check from them, thinking it was just the monthly bill on automatic debit from his checking. So, after 5 years, they had to turn it over to the State of Minnesota. He filed the claim forms and got it back.

Damn funny they couldn't "find" their own customer, but I guess people and computers get lazy.

A few years ago, I read an article about California's Escheat program, and the reporter told about finding several thousand bucks due a fellow named "Bob Hope". Hope was still alive at the time, but the State of California "couldn't find him".

Send me your bank account number and your p.i.n. so I can deposit the cash for you.

My account # is 007-373-5963.