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VIRGINIA

Unclaimed money in Virginia, and how to ask for it.

Money from an estate you were a beneficiary of can be held under the name of the deceased rather than yours. Search both, and bring the will.

Search Virginia — free, official

Goes straight to the Virginia Department of the Treasury. We take no cut and ask for nothing.

The whole thing, in three steps

  1. Search Virginia itself. The Virginia Department of the Treasury runs the official search at https://vamoneysearch.org/. 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 Virginia — 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 DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontWashingtonWest 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