{"id":234800,"date":"2026-04-16T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:43:06","slug":"find-your-money-now-130m-in-unclaimed-money-waiting-for-lee-county-residents-to-claim-wink-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234800\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Money Now: $130M in unclaimed money waiting for Lee County residents to claim | WINK Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Residents in Fort Myers and Naples claimed $5 million in unclaimed property, according to data from the Florida Department of Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In March alone, Lee County data shows that just under $2 million in unclaimed property was returned to residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over $1.9 million was returned to residents in Collier County last month, and more than $900,000 was returned in Charlotte County.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But those numbers seem low compared to the amount of money still waiting to be claimed. In Lee County alone, almost $130 million remains unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nearly $81 million in unclaimed property remains in Collier County. More than $36 million remains in Charlotte County.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From 4 to 6 p.m., our team will be answering phone calls to find out if you have unclaimed property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The phone number: 239-940-6902<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fltreasurehunt.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Residents can check online at any time to see if any of that money could be theirs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Residents in Fort Myers and Naples claimed $5 million in unclaimed property, according to data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,3837,7353,1917,325,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-234800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-collaborator_gen_stories","13":"tag-collier","14":"tag-consumer","15":"tag-lee","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}