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Unclaimed money

Unclaimed money

91 official government search portals, reviewed Aug 5, 2026. This sends you to the government’s own search, never to an intermediary.

Where to search

Search everywhere you have lived or worked, not only where you are now. Property with no known owner address escheats to the holder’s state, which is why so much American unclaimed property sits in Delaware.

Search every place you have ever lived, not just where you are now. Property is escheated by the holder’s state, which is often not yours.

 

4 portals for Australia, including the national programmes that also hold money for people in that jurisdiction.

  • OfficialFree to search

    ASIC MoneySmart — unclaimed money search

    Open the official search
    Cost to searchFree
    Typical time to payment28 days
    Entry reviewedAug 5, 2026

    What you will be asked for

    Proof of identity
    Evidence linking you to the account, company or policy

    Worth knowing

    Searches bank accounts, life insurance and company money held by ASIC. Unclaimed money held by ASIC is never lost and earns interest — but state-held money and lost superannuation are separate searches, below.

  • OfficialFree to search

    Australian Taxation Office — lost and unclaimed superannuation

    Open the official search
    Cost to searchFree
    Entry reviewedAug 5, 2026

    Worth knowing

    By far the largest pool of unclaimed money in Australia. Search through myGov linked to the ATO; the balance can usually be rolled into your current fund in a few clicks. Anyone charging a fee to "find your super" is charging for this.

  • OfficialFree to search

    Revenue NSW — Unclaimed Money

    Open the official search
    Cost to searchFree
    Entry reviewedAug 5, 2026

    Worth knowing

    State-held unclaimed money is a separate pool from the Commonwealth one at ASIC. Search both.

  • OfficialFree to search

    State Revenue Office Victoria — Unclaimed Money

    Open the official search
    Cost to searchFree
    Entry reviewedAug 5, 2026

Every portal carried

91 registers. Where a country runs no central register it is listed saying so — Germany, Japan and Hong Kong hold dormant money at the bank that has it, with no national search to run.

United States — states and DC51

Once you have found something

Filing is free and you do it yourself: expect photo ID, the tax or national identity number on the record, and something linking you to the address it was reported under. The one hard deadline here is American — an unclaimed IRS refund expires three years after the return was due. State unclaimed property is usually held indefinitely.

Work through a claimTrack one you have filed

The regimes behind this category

Dataset reviewed Aug 5, 2026

Links go to the administering body’s own domain. If one does not resolve, find the programme through the state or national government’s own site rather than through a search engine — finder services rank highly for exactly these terms.