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Do you live in New York State? Here’s a website where you can check to see if the state is holding any unclamied funds in your name.

For your protection, banks, insurance companies, utilities, investment companies and many other businesses are required by State law to surrender inactive accounts to the State. The Office of the State Comptroller serves as custodian of this money until you claim it. The State of New York never takes ownership of this money. If you can prove you are entitled to the money, we will gladly return it to you, at any time, without charge.

This website will tell you how to avoid having your money turned over to the State and how to get it back if it is abandoned.

I checked, nothing there for me. Not for anyone else I know, either. Oh well. I’d checked several years ago, and did find some unclaimed money in a savings acocunt in my name. Apparently, when I was born, one of my relatives started a savings account for me. I found out about it at age 30. Guess how much money accrued after 30 years? $17.24. :-p Interest rates for savings has always been pitifully paltry; it’s almost criminal. Not even enough to get a pizza or notebook memory, blech. Oh well, $17 is $17, eh?

Anyway, there may be something there for you! Check it out!