THE UNCLAIMED PROPERTY OWNERS NETWORK

They took $20,222 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.

COMING THIS SUMMER

TAKEN: How To Rescue Your Money

A complete field guide to unclaimed property — why you didn't know your money was there, why the system made it so hard to find out, and how to get it back.

Download Fear Factor — a free chapter on why claiming your unclaimed property is harder than the system wants you to believe, and exactly why that benefits everyone except you.

What's inside the Guide?

A complete step by step guide written by a thirty year attorney who found $20,222 she didn't know she had — and spent months figuring out exactly why the system made it so hard.

What unclaimed property actually is and how your money got there

Why there is $70 billion sitting in state databases right now

What the system does to stop you from getting it back

How to search every database systematically

How to submit your claim and fight for what's yours

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.

It's your money.

You earned it. You paid for it. You inherited it.

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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