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the problem: unclaimed, forgotten and lost financial funds there are many types and reasons for unclaimed fund/benefits. here are six broad categories: • unclaimed dividends • unclaimed account balances/cheques and redundant bank accounts • unclaimed insurance benefits • unclaimed tax/social security benefits • unclaimed pensions, and unclaimed/lost asset and properties. usa: there is no one single resource for people to find these funds and property that they don’t know about. entities that are holding the funds and assets for the rightful owners are not really incentivised to hand it over, as they earn interest on anything unclaimed. the depth of the problem: usa: hold more than $58 billion in unclaimed cash and benefits, that's roughly $186 for every u.s. resident. even more billions of dollars of unclaimed savings bonds and assets. uk: $758 million lying unclaimed in lost bank accounts. dead cash of over £230bn in millions of uk life insurance policies unclaimed financial assets