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RHODE ISLAND

Unclaimed money in Rhode Island, and how to ask for it.

Small state, same rule: the money is held under the last address a company had for you, so check every state you have lived in, not only this one.

Search Rhode Island — free, official

Goes straight to the Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer. We take no cut and ask for nothing.

The whole thing, in three steps

  1. Search Rhode Island itself. The Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer runs the official search at https://findrimoney.com/. Your name is enough to start.
  2. Then search every other state you have ever lived in. This is the step most people skip. Money is handed to the state of the last address a company had on file for you, so it sits in a state you moved away from years ago. The list of all fifty official offices is at unclaimed.org.
  3. Then the eight federal searches. Savings bonds, pensions from closed plans, failed banks, closed credit unions, undelivered tax refunds, FHA refunds, veterans' insurance and money held by federal courts. They are all on our front page, each with its official link.
Two things worth knowing before you start

The state will almost never contact you first. If somebody phones and offers to "release" your money for a fee, that is not Rhode Island — that is a finder, and you do not need one.

And the honest number: most people find tens of dollars, not thousands. It is still your money, and the search costs nothing but twelve minutes.

Every state we have written up

AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawarethe District of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming

Not here yet? The official office for all fifty states is listed at unclaimed.org.

A new list of open refunds, every Tuesday

Courts and regulators order refunds every week and hardly anybody collects them. We publish the open ones with the official link beside each, and it costs nothing to look.

See this week's list