Just in time for Veterans Day Kansas State Treasurer Dennis McKinney has announced that his office is bringing the Patriots Property Program to Kansas. Modeled from a Missouri initiative, Kansas now has a system in place to reunite Kansas Veterans with their unclaimed property. The Patriots Property Program was created through a partnership between the State Treasurer's Office and the Kansas Commission on Veterans Affairs.
"These veterans have served our country well and we owe it to them" said Dennis McKinney. "Finding and returning their property is the least that we can do."
The State Treasurer's office will begin immediately looking for 35,000 veterans that may have unclaimed property. Names of Kansas Veterans with property being held by the state will also be published on the State Treasurer's website at www.kansasstatetreasurer.com/patriotsproperty.
"When a name or address of the veteran matches a name or address in our unclaimed property database, then the veteran's most current contact information will be used to get in touch with them and make them aware of their lost property," explained McKinney.
"We are proud of our veterans and we want to make every effort to return the favor of the great sacrifice that they have made for our country," McKinney said.
Each year thousands of people lose track of their bank accounts, cash, stocks, bonds, refunds, royalties, safe deposit boxes and other property. People move and forget to furnish their bank, broker, employer or insurance company with a forwarding address. It is the Treasurer's charge to locate the rightful owners and heirs to the over $209 million in unclaimed assets currently being held by the State of Kansas.
To search for unclaimed property please call the State Treasurer's office at 1-800-432-0386 or visit www.KansasCash.com.
