FAQ

Millions of Americans have abandoned funds that rightfully belong to them held at thrid party trust accounts. These funds become abandoned 

• Savings accounts
• Checking accounts
• Uncashed checks
• Telephone/utility deposits
• Rental security deposits
• Wages
• Insurance benefits/policies
• Safe deposit box contents
• Mortgage insurance refunds
• Stocks and dividends
• Mutual funds
• Certificates of deposit
• Trust funds
• Estate proceeds 

Accounts can become abandoned for many reasons including:

• Leaving a job and never claiming a final paycheck
• Failing to notify a company that owes you money that you have moved
• Opening a savings account for a child and forgetting about it
• Moving without getting back your utility deposit
• Forgetting to cash a health insurance check
• Neglecting to cash interest or dividend checks on a security

There is no single answer to this question. We can give you some common examples so you understand how this may have happened.

An owner could have forgotten about some funds when moving and forgotten to leave a forwarding address. A check could have been lost and gone un-cashed.

Regardless of the reason, it is actually fairly easy to have "lost" money at one point or another during your life.

It takes time, money, resources, and employees to find lost funds and locate the rightful owners.

There are tens of billions of dollars in unclaimed funds scattered all across the United States. There is an incredible amount of data that requires a great deal of information technology infrastructure to process.

Once we have the data, the owners often no longer reside at the same address or have even changed their names. Many times the contact information was stored incorrectly in the first place. The lost funds we deal with are usually years or even decades old. Private investigators, and resources that require a Private Investigator's License, are required for us to put the pieces together using incomplete and inaccurate information.

Once we have done the work of locating lost funds and a matching owner, we must then contact them and provide quality customer service to guide them through the recovery process.

It actually depends on the jurisdiction and the type of the funds and the documentation involved in claiming the funds. Having said that, it typically takes anywhere between couple of weeks to few months.