They took $23,000 of my money
I took it back.
One in seven Americans has money sitting in a state database right now. $70 billion total. They're not going to tell you it's there.
This guide helps you find it and get it back.
What's inside the Guide?
A complete step by step guide written by a thirty year attorney who found $23,000 she didn't know she had — and spent months figuring out exactly why the system made it so hard.
What will you get from this Guide?
The Truth
Why states are sitting on $70 billion of your money and exactly how it got there.
The Strategy
How to search every database systematically so nothing gets missed.
The Process
How to submit your claim and fight through the documentation wall.
The Mindset
You did nothing wrong. It's yours. Act accordingly.
You Did Nothing Wrong.
Their Words. Not Ours.
States have come to view unclaimed property as a revenue source upon which they have come to rely — subverting the consumer protection purpose the laws were intended to embrace. .
UPPO Letter 2014
Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization, 2014
Administrators recognize that they are under a duty to seek to locate owners and that unnecessary requirements that frustrate or delay the return of unclaimed property to owners has no place in the context of a custodial unclaimed property act.
Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act Comments 2016
Uniform Law Commission, 2016
Delaware's audit practices, including its unclaimed property estimation methodology, shocked the conscience in violation of substantive due process
Judge Gregory M. Sleet, United States District Court, District of Delaware, Temple-Inland, Inc. v. Cook, 2016.
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