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How to Find Your Missing and Unclaimed Money for Free

You can find unclaimed money for free. As more old data is put online, our resources for finding unclaimed money grow.

I found my missing money, submitted my claim for the money and got a check in the mail.

While claiming unclaimed money free was a $100 success for us, this man recently got $763,000 in unclaimed money [1]! Can you imagine?

Find Unclaimed Money for Free

There are billions of dollars in unclaimed money. However, you do not need to pay an unclaimed money finder. You can do the searches for free yourself using many of the databases listed below.

How to Find Money Owed to Me For Free

How can you find unclaimed money owed to you? There are multiple places to search for unclaimed money by person name for free. Some of the sites also use search based on social security numbers.

Depending on the type of money missing, there are various “who owes me money” free search databases. However, if you don’t know the money is missing, you probably don’t know what type it is! You might as well search all the categories.

Where to Look for Your Missing Money

How can you find unclaimed money owed to you? To find your missing money there are multiple agencies to search at.

You’ll need to look in all the states you previously lived in. In addition, you need to search on any maiden names or prior names you may have used. In addition to searching for yourself, you may also want to search for deceased relatives.

Unclaimed Property and Bank Accounts

  • Missing Money.com [2]. Missing Money.com is a National Database of Unclaimed Property and links to States. This was the website I used to find my missing money. After searching for unclaimed money by person name, I found my account and submitted the claim via my state’s department of revenue. There were some rumors that Missing Money.com was a scam when I filed my claim. I’m here to tell you that I got my money. It took awhile, but I did get my money.
  • Failed Banks with the FDIC [3]. You can search for money lost due to failed banks. The FDIC will pay based on the insured deposits up to the FDIC insurance limits [4].
  • NCUA Liquidated Credit Unions [5]. You can search for money lost when a credit union was liquidated. For 18 months the amount will be paid at the fully insured rate. After 18 months you may get a partial distribution.

Unclaimed Retirement Benefits

Unclaimed Tax Refunds

Unclaimed Savings Bonds

  • Lost Savings Bonds from Treasury Department [13]. The Treasury department discontinued the Treasury Hunt search by social security number for lost savings bonds. However, they still offer a form to fill out to submit a claim for lost, stolen or destroyed US Savings Bonds.

New Unclaimed Money Search from Credit Karma

Credit Karma, the same company that provides free credit scores [14] recently added an Unclaimed Money search [15] product. It currently works for California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.

Tips on Finding Missing Money

Search various states and names. Don’t forget to search for your maiden name and other variations in your name due to misspellings. Also, search previous states that you lived in. I found my unclaimed bank account in my maiden name from an old address.

Avoid the Pay Sites. Because there are so many places to look for unclaimed money in your name for free, there really isn’t a need to pay for the service. One site that readers ask me about is unclaimedmoney.com. I looked into their search and they charge between $11 and $129 depending on the length of the membership.

Routinely Search. This might be one of those exercises that you put in your calendar for every 5 years. As you can see, even though I claimed all my missing money before, some more turned up!

Free Money

If your search for claiming unclaimed money free doesn’t turn up anything, you can always explore our updated list of free money offers [16].

Action Plan to Find Your Missing Money

Do you have any “lost” money? Try the free unclaimed money search and see what happens! Then submit a claim for your missing unclaimed money.

Did you find any missing money owed to you?

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