Good Morning America Helps Missouri Return $6 million of Unclaimed Money

Good Morning America has been taking great strides in returning unclaimed money into it rightful hands and they found a whopper of a claim.
The Missouri State Treasurer has over $600 million of unclaimed property and one lady actually set the record by getting $6.1 million. The anonymous Kansas City woman owes her windfall to a long lost relative who invested in an obscure stock that just went up and up. It's like winning a lottery you didn't know even existed.
The national and local media organizations have been doing a good job alerting the public to the fact that the states have billions of dollars of missing money and you just need to do simple and free internet searches to see if you (or your dead relatives) have any money that is just waiting in the state's coffers waiting to be claimed. It can be bank accounts, brokerage accounts, Utility deposits or even savings bonds. People like Clark Howard and Oprah Winfrey have also worked to highlight this issue and help people contact their state treasurer and investigate their "cash dash" websites to see if they can get rich quick.

Missouri's Unclaimed Assets Email List

The State of Missouri's treasurer Clint Zweifel recently became the second leader in the country to set up a process to email people whenever their name gets on the state's unclaimed assets list.

Residents must opt-in to be placed on the list by filling out their information here. And then in the coming years, if any bank account, utility account, brokerage fund etc... gets escheated to the state of Missouri, the treasurers office will email you and tell you how to claim it.

Since this list will be around for years, you should use an email address that will follow you around for years (such as a gmail or yahoo.com address) and probably not use a work email address that you my stop using if you lose your job or decide to retire.

According to St. Louis Today , the state is holding onto over $180 million of unclaimed funds and returned over $30 million during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010---This included one lucky guy who received a check for over $1 million!

Find Unclaimed Property in Kansas & Missouri

Kansas and Missouri State Treasurers call people to tell them that they have money waiting to be theirs.

Even the reporter's own mother found out that she had $3,000 waiting for her.

And the largest claim from last year was well over $400,000!