The legitimacy page
Healthy suspicion is the right starting point in this category: finders mail strangers, lookalike sites sell free searches, and the money belongs to dead people. So don't take our word for anything. This page separates the three things being verified — the state's program, the search, and us — and gives you the independent check for each.
Unclaimed property programs are state law, run by state treasurers, comptrollers, and revenue departments. Verify any state's door independently: start from the state's own government homepage (the .gov site), find its treasury or comptroller, and follow its unclaimed-property link — or start from unclaimed.org, the state programs' association (NAUPA), which links every official program. If the door you land on matches the one in our table, you're at the real one.
The legitimate search costs nothing: MissingMoney.com is the search the states themselves endorse for participating states, and every state's own site searches free. A site that finds money and then asks for a fee to "show you where" is selling you the free door. A person who found money "for you" and wants a percentage signed before telling you which state holds it is a finder — legal within caps, and almost always unnecessary: read the decoder before signing anything.
Run your own claim. The free checker takes your state, your relationship, and your amount — and returns the probate-skip verdict, your document chain in order, the signatures you'll need, and the finder fee you'd avoid. Run the checker →
The pages above are the map. The kit is the paperwork: the per-state checklists, the Table of Heirs worksheet, the letters that line up every heir's signature, and the chapter for the state's reply.
One payment, yours to keep. We never file for you and never touch your money — you file everything yourself, with the state. See everything inside the kit →