At the end of the three-year period, those items in excess of $15.00 must be published as notification that the money will become the property of the agency after a designated date if it is left unclaimed items under $15.00 need not be published.Įscheatment to the general fund occurs if a verified claim is not filed by the designated date forty-five to sixty days after the date of first publication.Ī majority of these unclaimed items are the result of cancellation of county checks that were issued and not cashed. provides that unclaimed monies which remain in the treasury or in the official custody of the officers of a local agency for three (3) years, become the property of the agency. Please follow procedures for claiming uncashed.
Forms and instructions on how to file a claim are also available on this site. Payees may claim their monies directly from the County of Sacramento without any service charges or fees. You can use this Web site to search for money that may belong to you. Over the years, we have reunited over 1 billion in cash and items to their rightful owners.
Here at the Comptrollers Office we take our responsibility to locate the owners of unclaimed property very seriously. There is no charge to file a claim for Unclaimed Money. Are you missing something Every day the Department of Finance receives returned checks that are undeliverable by postal delivery. All money collected from auctioned items is kept for the original owner (or rightful heirs) and can be claimed at any time.