#Escheatment
Your friendly reminder that if you live in the US, check the escheatment/unclaimed property website for your state government in case they've got money for you
July 23, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Hey check this out, escheatment.

Basically, a bank can be required to hand the money in a bank account over to the state if the account has not had activity in a certain time.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat
Escheat - Wikipedia
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December 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
escheatment laws are actually about when heirs inherit money
September 24, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Going to start training people at work that escheatment laws were originally passed to deter time travelers from depositing funds to get hundreds of years of interest payments in their own time.
September 24, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Escheatment of kiddos diaper fund does sound more likely
September 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
(Ohio has permanent escheatment. Ten years and it's theirs forever.)
August 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Just had a knock down drag out fight with United Healthcare over $28 they stole from me that resulted in me threatening to contact the Oregon Attorney General and they are in violation of our state escheatment laws, and they said yeah they know but they only follow FEDERAL laws LMAOOOOOOOOOOO ☠️💀🪦
August 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
You can check with a variety of sites to see if you have unclaimed funds due to escheatment or some other process. Here's one of them that works for the USA and Canada:
missingmoney.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:29 AM
FWIW, I worked for Big Bank for years, and they hate them. Closing/moving a branch becomes a huge problem. Escheatment of physical property is a real problem that takes years to resolve.
March 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Cross-referencing large databases, which is not really LLM but is AI.

For example, find everyone who simultaneously has tax liens and unclaimed $ at risk for escheatment.
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Each jurisdiction will have its own maximum time before escheatment occurs, 2 years, 3 years, etc without activity on the account.

And then, the state gets the money as unclaimed funds.
December 27, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Learn all about escheatment and unclaimed property on this episode. People were finding money live as we streamed!

missingmoney.com
About to go live with Jen Borden to talk about Escheatment - the state likes to take your property, especially your stocks if you don't keep your accounts active. Learn all about it and how to prevent it now:
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February 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not true. It’s about assets being delivered to the state when they have been idle for a predetermined number of years. If somebody has passed then individuals are free to seek letters of appointment before escheatment timeframes have been reached.
September 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
who’s ready for some Tuesday Morning Escheatment Talk, featuring Delaware State Escheator Brenda Mayrack

www.delawareonline.com/story/news/l...
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September 3, 2024 at 11:40 AM
I once explained escheatment to some boomer in Ohio, he said, “Oh so BIDEN wants to take my money huh??” I explained these are state laws, so he should take it up with OH.

There was a fun silence, I could practically hear the gears slowly turn as he realized Republicans control Ohio’s government
Boomers can be such crybabies lol

Dude at work called and I explained some things to him, and his response was just “oh, so we’re being forced into socialism?!”

And when I told him no, not even close he just got all quiet and unresponsive for the next ten minutes before hanging up
November 1, 2023 at 2:15 PM
me: *receives a letter from a financial company I had to claim my account or else it goes to escheatment*
me: *tries to log in per their recommendation, is unable to*
me: *calls 2 SEPARATE NUMBERS TO TALK TO A HUMAN*
me: Ok now that I'll get access online in 3 days, can I at least know the balance?
June 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM
So Dillard's is the latest controlled company to choose to reincorporate out of Delaware, and, as expected, it listed "frivolous litigation" as a reason but this was a new one:

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August 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Even if courts eventually rule it's legal escheatment, this is money Ohio could have used for literally anything else — but sports team owners were shouting the loudest, so they're the ones who'll end up getting the benefit of all those uncashed checks.
Ohio really does plan to fund Browns and other stadiums by seizing billions in money it owes to private individuals
Remember how the Ohio legislature proposed borrowing $600 million from the state's unclaimed property fund to use on a new Cleveland Browns stadium and repaying it with money from an omni-TIF collecti...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#Term: #Escheatment - https://with.ga/ulo5k
"Escheatment is the legal process where #Unclaimed or abandoned property, like dormant bank accounts, stocks, or safe deposit box contents, is transferred from a financial institution to the state government after a set dormancy period." - Escheatme...
April 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Term: #Escheatment - https://with.ga/ulo5k
"Escheatment is the legal process where #Unclaimed or abandoned property, like dormant bank accounts, stocks, or safe deposit box contents, is transferred from a financial institution to the state government after a set dormancy period." - Escheatme...
April 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
this one's for the property professors who teach escheatment...

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December 20, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Escheatment! This was one of my favorite duties as a bookkeeper bc I had to reach out to people to tell them they had unclaimed funds w/ us and they'd get happy. Filing the reports to turn over the money with various states sucked though. 😂
July 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM