Minnesotans, get your money back

Interesting op-ed by Joe Atkins, DFL - Inver Grove Heights.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/298386621.html

When I got the list of my constituents with unclaimed property being held by the state of Minnesota two months ago, I was astonished at the amount — a staggering $7 million in lost funds belonged to families from my House district of 39,500 people. I naturally assumed the people on the unclaimed property list would be hard to find, since some insurance company, bank or past employer had been unable to locate the person with unclaimed property. Boy, was I wrong. It was a walk in the park to find the owners of unclaimed property. Over the course of three weeks, allotting a mere 10 minutes per day, I located and notified local residents with more than $303,000 in unclaimed funds. That’s in excess of $100,000 per hour.

Statewide, the total amount of unclaimed or lost property being held by the Minnesota Department of Commerce is mind-blowing — a record $650 million — almost three times as much as it was a mere decade ago. This represents a whopping $125 in unclaimed funds for every one of Minnesota’s 5.2 million citizens.

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