January 18, 2012
Find Abandoned Assets in Delaware – Part 2 of 2
(Part 2 of 2)
Beyond just non-Delaware residents possibly finding unclaimed funds in Delaware, Delaware residents may be owed cash from other states. To start with, there are plenty of companies that are incorporated in other states that employ people living in in Delaware, but there are other reasons, such as insurance overpayments, that may leave a Delaware resident's abandoned funds stuck in another state.
Once people become aware of unclaimed funds, and even once they realize that they could be owed money from a number of states, they tend to do one quick search and believe that whatever the search results say is the end of the story. Sadly, not all unclaimed funds sites are the same, and there is no one search that checks the listings of all states. Even after you break it down to the state level, the records are often very unreliable because they are not updated in real time.
Every state has its own unique laws dictating when missing cash must be turned over to the department that handles these kinds of assets in that state. And every type of property (dormant bank accounts, lost or forgotten uncashed checks, stock or bonds, dividends & bond interest, insurance proceeds, utility refunds, safe deposit box contents, etc.) has its own unique dormancy period, which is the number of years that must go by before the monies are classified as "unclaimed". For this reason, different money is handed over to each state all the time, and the states update their records whenever they find the employees and time to do so. For these reasons, anyone truly interested in tracking down all possible money claims must search frequently, in addition to learning where to search and where not to perform a search.
These hurdles, among others, can seem overwhelming to a frustrated beginner in unclaimed asset searching, but now searchers can use guides created by professionals in the field to jump the hurdles that often plague rookies. For those who think they can manage their cash better than their state treasury dept., you owe it to yourselves to educate yourselves on the best ways to search and then get started ASAP.
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