{"id":81340,"date":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","slug":"heres-how-pennsylvania-residents-can-check-to-see-if-theyre-owed-unclaimed-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81340\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how Pennsylvania residents can check to see if they&#8217;re owed unclaimed money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/n3gnuwy1juyhwx8j.jpg\" alt=\"Here's how Pennsylvania residents can check to see if they're owed unclaimed money\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Pennsylvania Treasury is alerting residents to check if they are owed free money from unclaimed property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The state is sending out nearly $100,000 in checks for so-called &#8220;unclaimed property&#8221; totaling more than $20M.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The funds are part of Pennsylvania&#8217;s \u2018Money Match\u2019 law that returns money to its rightful owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The unclaimed money could be from things like old bank accounts, uncashed checks, insurance payouts and more.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Treasury receives hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed property every year, often because of something as simple as a misspelled name or an out-of-date address,&#8221; State Treasurer Stacy Garrity said. &#8220;But let\u2019s be clear: this is your money we\u2019re talking about, and I want to return it to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">You can see if you&#8217;re entitled to unclaimed funds by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreasury.gov\/unclaimed-property\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pennsylvania Treasury&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/money\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Money<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Pennsylvania Treasury is alerting residents to check if they are owed free money from unclaimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,139,539,28,30,29,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-81340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-money","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}