WI State Treasury to Release Names for Unclaimed Property
Thursday, March 29th, 2012 -- 8:44 AM
-Starting Sunday April 1st and lasting until June 23rd, Wisconsin residents in every county can look for their names in their paper of record to see if the State Treasurer?s office is holding unclaimed property.?These are the new names we received at the end of last year from companies across the state and country,? State Treasurer Kurt Schuller said. ?We print the new names every year, as required by state law, to make it easier for people to find cash they didn?t even know was lost.?
Companies turned over $39,160,521 to the State Treasury in 2011. This money belongs to all the people who will have their names printed in the papers over the next 3 months. However, the Office of State Treasurer has been holding unclaimed property since the early 1970?s. The department has $412,226,584 that they want to give back to the rightful owners.
Any Wisconsinite can search for missing money on the treasury?s website www.wismissingmoney.com and Clark County residents can look in the Neillsville County Regiter.
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