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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.

 

1 portal for Spain, including the national programmes that also hold money for people in that jurisdiction.

  • OfficialFree to search

    Tesoro Público — abandoned balances and deposits

    Tesoro Público — saldos y depósitos abandonados

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

    Worth knowing

    Spanish balances untouched for twenty years are declared abandoned and pass to the State under the Ley 33/2003 del Patrimonio de las Administraciones Públicas. There is no consumer-facing search database; the enquiry goes to the bank, and the twenty-year point is a hard extinction, not a transfer you can later reverse.

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.