Top St. Louis Employer Receives $118,000 in Unclaimed Property

A top St. Louis employer has received $118,000 in Unclaimed Property from State Treasurer Clint Zweifel. The money came from 53 individual accounts belonging to the company. Its name is being withheld for privacy reasons.

“Every day I receive new Unclaimed Property for businesses and individuals in Missouri ranging in value from a few cents to millions of dollars,” Zweifel said. “I hold more than 4.3 million accounts worth nearly $700 million, money I hold in trust forever until returned. This is money that belongs to the taxpayers of Missouri, and we are returning more of it than ever before.”

The 53 accounts were made up of refunds, stocks, dividends, rebates and security deposits.

Treasurer Zweifel has returned more than $30 million so far this fiscal year, including what is thought to be the single largest return to a business or individual in the nation’s history, $6.1 million to a Kansas City area woman in November. This is a 17 percent increase over this time in 2011.

Thirty-eight accounts worth more than $100,000 each remain to be returned. The geographic breakdown is:

• 15 in St. Louis County; 
• 12 in Jackson County; 
• three in St. Louis City; 
• two in Boone County; and 
• one each in Buchanan, Butler, Camden, Cole, Franklin and Jasper counties.

Since January 2009, Zweifel has returned $113 million to nearly 350,000 account holders.

Missourians may check for Unclaimed Property 24 hours-a-day at www.ShowMeMoney.com.