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Even though WY has returned millions of dollars to the rightful owners, the vast majority remains unclaimed, and the main reasons come down to a lack of awareness about these assets. The good news is, WY is a custodial state, which means they hold these monies forever, and won't ever take possession of them. There is no expiration date on lost cash.

As residents the state with the smallest population, citizens living in WY have excellent odds of locating missing money owed to them. But most people are unaware that other states might be holding money belonging to them. You do not even have to have been to another state for another state to owe you money. A lot of companies have offices and/or locations in multiple states, but they can obviously only be headquartered in one place. For this reason, employees often lose track of money and never realize it even if they search, because the cash is being held in the state where their company has its headquarters. Similarly, insurance companies often service many states, but like any company they can only maintain one headquarters. Items like insurance overpayments will be passed along to the proper department in the state where the insurance company is incorporated, which isn't necessarily the state where the insured person lives. These are just a few of the reasons that it is very important that residents search outside of the state they live in.

Besides limiting searches to one state, beginners usually do not know that they should search multiple times. In fact, they should search frequently. Due to the varying dormancy periods for each type of unclaimed money, and because an employee of the State Treasurer's Office has to physically add each record to the system, the missing money list changes all the time. A search might come up empty one day, while searching the next day could produce a nice treasure for a diligent searcher.

Professional searchers have a lot of tactics that give them an edge when attempting to locate forgotten funds, and the wisest beginners learn about these and duplicate them in their own searches to be certain they've discovered all possible claims.

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