It sounds like something that could happen from a plot of a movie. A normal, ordinary person comes home and checks the mail after a normal, ordinary day. And there it is, a notice for unclaimed ...

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As the advertisements all over Massachusetts say, the state’s sitting on billions of dollars in unclaimed property. And $615,000 of it belonged to Diane Rothschild. But she died a decade ago, so her ...

More than 25 years ago, a $20,000 check from the state to the New North Citizens’ Council, a community nonprofit, went uncashed. Time passed. The money became part of the state’s unclaimed property ...

Spring cleaning your finances? Your first step should be checking for unclaimed property. It might sound too good to be true, but the Massachusetts State Treasury’s Unclaimed Property program exists ...

Atlanta man Shaka Stayman is charged with stealing over $1.1 million from Massachusetts Unclaimed Property Division.

SPRINGFIELD — A federal judge has rejected a Longmeadow man’s lawsuit against the state treasurer’s office. In a memorandum and order March 25, Judge Mark G. Mastroianni of the U.S. District Court in ...

A lost Purple Heart has been returned to a Vietnam veteran in Massachusetts, just in time for Veterans Day. It's one of six that the Unclaimed Property Division found in safe deposit boxes and the ...