The state Department of Budget and Finance’s Unclaimed Property Program staff will be at the 2007 Kauai County Farm Bureau Fair this year. Staff members will be there from 6 p.m. to midnight Aug. 23 and Aug. 24, 6 p.m.
The state Department of Budget and Finance’s Unclaimed Property Program staff will be at the 2007 Kauai County Farm Bureau Fair this year.
Staff members will be there from 6 p.m. to midnight Aug. 23 and Aug. 24, 6 p.m. to midnight Aug. 25, and noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 26 to conduct searches for interested parties to determine if they have unclaimed property due to them.
The state says there is no fee for this service. Interested persons only need to provide their names in order to conduct a search.
The state of Hawai‘i holds in safekeeping approximately $130 million of unclaimed property. In the fiscal year ending June 30, the program returned over $5 million to rightful owners.
The Unclaimed Property Program receives and holds abandoned or unclaimed property such as money, bank accounts, certificates of deposit, negotiable instruments, gift certificates, credit balances, insurance refunds, etc. that in most cases have remained inactive for a period of at least five years.
Interested parties can also conduct an online search by going to www.unclaimedproperty.hawaii.gov and clicking on Search for Unclaimed Property or by calling the unclaimed property program at 1-808-586-1589 to determine if there are funds or unclaimed property due them.
