As you all know, I live in the wonderful state of Illinois. Now, if you are a resident here, have you heard about the I-Cash program?
The program was founded in 1999 with the goal of reuniting Illinois residents with their unclaimed assets. You’d be amazed at how much money the Illinois Treasurer is holding that people haven’t claimed. It is shocking! The Illinois Treasurer is currently safeguarding more than $2 billion in cash and 20 million shares of stock and mutual funds that need to be returned to Illinoisans! Insane, right? How does the state Treasurer end up with this? These assets are transferred to the Treasury after banks, government agencies, and other companies become unable to return them to their rightful owners. Yes, you will find money in the I-Cash database you didn’t know you had. I just checked for this blog post and my sister-in-law is listed on the site! It’s less than $10, but she can totally use that on her kids! Two of Bill’s really good friends have money to claim too (between $10 – $100). Even better is that we are going to a wedding this weekend, and I just found the groom’s name. He has 5 different things, and he’s got a least $100 coming to him! That will be a great wedding/honeymoon surprise for him! We will all be at this wedding, and I can’t wait to tell them all!
I know you want to check to see if you have any assets. The website is a free and easy way for you to discover if you have cash or other assets to recover. The process is simple:
- Enter your name (or a family member or friend’s name) into the online search field
- If it’s a match, submit the online claim form
- Receive your property in an average of three weeks’ time and enjoy!
With more than 13 million names in the I-Cash database, one in four Illinois adults who search the website discovers property to claim. The average claim is about $1000, while the highest claim was more than $8 million in 2012. You never know what you might find. Seriously, it will take you 5 minutes! Actually, I searched my entire family in about 5 minutes. It’s that quick, and it’s even better if you find you are owed some money!
What would you spend the money on if you find any assets using I-Cash?
This post was sponsored by the Illinois Treasurer’s I-Cash program. While I have been compensated for my time, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I’ve never heard of this before. I’ll have to check it out. Who knows what I might find!
We have a similar program here in NC. You can log on to a web site, type in your name and SSN, and find out if there is some unclaimed money there for you. I can’t remember the web address right off, but it helped me locate a paycheck from a fast food chain in Virginia that I was owed!
We have done this kind of thing before and we found cool stuff about my husband;’s family and yes there are money involved.
I looked into this when I was living in Georgia, but I didn’t find anything relevant to me. It is worth a try though.
How cool! I wish I was in your area so I could see if I had any I-cash! I’ll have to see if we have a similar program where I live.
We have something like that in SC, but I’ve never found my name listed. I sure would love to find some money in my name.
This sounds like an easy way to check if you have anything available to claim. It doesn’t hurt to check just in case!
Ha! We used to live in Illinois, so I’m going to give it a try. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
This is the first time I’ve heard about this. I’m going to have to look more in to it. I’m interested to know if my husband or I would be on here. Thanks for posting. I’m checking it out now.
I’m not sure I’ve ever had family there. But if I found money I would work on getting the kids more school clothes.
I am so surprised that there is so much unclaimed things. I will have to check this out.
I have never heard of this before. I am definitely going to check this out. There are so many great deals to be had.
I have tried programs like this in the past, alas no unclaimed cash for me! It would be nice, though. 🙂
This is the first time I heard about this. I will check this at as I am curious on what I might find out.
Thank you for a great reminder to those who live in Illinois. It surely would be great to find out that there was some extra cash somewhere that rightfully belongs to us.
Oh wow! I saw that on some site, but I wasn’t sure if it was actually real. That’s so neat, I wish we had something like that for Virginia.
I am glad this type of program exists. People often tend to forget about money in certain places. They have something similar in Texas.
I filled out something like this a little while ago in my state and found I had $50. =) It was pretty cool to find out, wish I had more money coming my way though lol.
Thats a lot of money unclaimed! I wish they have one for Atlanta!!
This sounds like an awesome program indeed. I will have to check it out for sure. I totally love that five minutes of your time and bring something good. Thanks for sharing.
That sounds like a really rewarding program. Thanks for sharing, I’ll have to check it out.
Yup, I think most states have this. I had some unclaimed money here in Michigan that I was reunited with. It was a couple of hundred dollars, I *think* it was a deposit for a secured credit card, but I’m not totally sure.
great rewarding program, never heard of them before. I should check them out but i don’t live in IL
WHOA!! Mind BLOWN! 2 Billion dollars?!?!? That is just insane! Wish some of that money was mine lol