He got his money back in January. Some of that may be yours, and you can get to it for nothing. And, she added, it's done for free.
Consumers can hire and pay a person to seek out unclaimed funds both here and in other states.
Or they can do what Robert Watson of Crossville did last year. He knows now that he paid tax on the dividends but had not received the money. Unclaimed funds can also come from forgotten bank accounts or from a paycheck forgotten after a job change, Chapman said. It can be a deposit from a local utility that never was returned, or it can be a check that wasn't delivered. In Roy's case it was two checks.