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. Losing sight of property can happen to anyone. It is the Treasurer's job to reunite rightful owners and heirs with unclaimed assets currently being held by the State of Kansas.

What kinds of properties are they?

• Court deposits
• Dormant checking accounts
• Dormant savings accounts
• Insurance benefits
• Oil and gas royalties
• Safe deposit box contents
• Stock and cash dividends
• Utility deposits
• Wages

To Search for Unclaimed Property:

Helpful Search Hints

1. Make sure you check with every state in which you have lived (unclaimed property is generally turned over to the state of your last known address as reflected on the records of the business holding your money, stock, etc.).
2. Do not assume that the business has your last known address, in which case the property is supposed to be sent to the state of incorporation of the business. Many times the state of incorporation is Delaware, New Jersey, New York or California, even though the business might be located in Kansas.
3. If you are a woman and you have been married, or if you are simply checking out family names, make sure to check under maiden names.
4. Keep in mind that if someone calls or writes to you and asks that you pay them money for the successful return of your unclaimed property, you probably have some out there somewhere. The folks who are contacting you are called 'asset locators.' They are not likely to contact you unless they believe that they have found property belonging to you. Asset locators generally charge a fee to locate and help return unclaimed property to you. Call us first.

Reporting and Delivery of Securities Property process to the Just for Holders page

The United States Treasury is currently holding more than $16 Billion worth of matured U.S. Savings Bonds that are no longer paying interest. The amount issued to owners with addresses in Kansas is estimated to be over $151 Million.

Some states have attempted to claim these bonds under the states’ various unclaimed property acts like K.S.A. 58-2934, et. seq., but the U.S. Treasury has refused their claims because these states did not have title to the bonds.  They have also refused our own efforts to gain access to their records so that we can learn more about unclaimed U.S. Savings Bonds owned by Kansans.

The Kansas Legislature passed K.S.A. 58-3979 authorizing the State Treasurer’s Office to take title to these matured bonds.  We are pursuing litigation to take title to all matured U.S. Savings Bonds issued to owners with a last known address in Kansas, in order to return the funds to their rightful owners.  The Kansas State Treasurer’s Office currently returns between $14 Million and $16 Million in other unclaimed property each year. 

The following savings bonds no longer earn interest:

To learn more about unclaimed savings bonds, search for yours, or file a claim, go to: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/tools/tools_treasuryhunt.htm.  You can search using the bond owner’s social security number for bonds issued after 1974, but if they were issued before then, you’ll need the bond number to search their records.  The U.S. Treasury has not entered data for all U.S. Savings Bonds on this website so they may be holding your bonds but you will not know it

You have until the hearing date of March 29, 2013 to claim your matured bonds from the U.S. Treasury.   Once we obtain title to these bonds, we will redeem them and place the original owners’ information on our website so the owners or their heirs can claim them from our office. 

If your name was listed in this published notice, the Treasurer's Office currently has your physical bond and you can claim it by contacting our office and filling out our claim form. The bond was most likely obtained from a safe deposit box owned by you or a family member that was delivered to our office as unclaimed property by a bank that does not have your current contact information.

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