MissingMoney.com

MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds.[1] It was established in November 1999,[2] as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree.[3] By December of that year, 10 states had joined.[3][4]

As of 2017, 39 states were participating in the program.[1] In participating states, MissingMoney.com is the only official means of discovering unclaimed funds, and operates free of charge; other companies that claim to offer access to unclaimed funds in these states (and which assess a fee for doing so) are considered scams.[1] In January 2017, the Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota alleging that the state's use of MissingMoney.com as the sole means to distribute its unclaimed funds impeded citizens from receiving such funds.[5] The website also provides information on the programs of states not participating in the national program.[6]

The eleven states not using MissingMoney.com are Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Oregon, South Carolina and Wyoming.[1]