‘Rundown’ by Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis ……………..

As January comes to a close, I want to highlight the tremendous work of my Division of Unclaimed Property. I’m happy to report that since I’ve been in office, we’ve repeatedly broken every record set throughout the program’s 59-year history, including reuniting more than $835 million to Florida residents and businesses. Florida has remained a national leader with our proactive efforts to return unclaimed property, and we will continue working to raise the bar even higher. The most common types of unclaimed property are dormant bank accounts, unclaimed insurance proceeds, stocks, dividends, uncashed checks, deposits, credit balances and refunds. Unclaimed property also includes contents from abandoned safe deposit boxes in financial institutions.