Alberta looking for owners of $154M in unclaimed money, property
Posted Jul 18, 2024 3:04 pm.
Last Updated Jul 18, 2024 3:14 pm.
The Alberta government is looking for the owners of $154 million in unclaimed money and property.
The province says its unclaimed property registry has about 350,000 unclaimed items, including a property valued at more than $850,000.
Sources of the funds include unclaimed deposits, uncashed wages, loan overpayments and unclaimed funds from inactive investment accounts.
If the $850,000 property gets claimed, it would be the largest single balance the province has ever paid out.
The registry returned $1.4 million to 650 people in 2023 alone.
“Alberta’s unclaimed property registry is free and easy to check, and a quick search of the registry could help reunite someone with money that they may not even know they were entitled to,” says Nate Horner, Alberta’s Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board.
Residents can search the province’s unclaimed property registry on the Missing Money website. The site is a portal used by Alberta and allows cross-jurisdictional searches.
