You could have unclaimed money. Here's how to collect it.

According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, over 33 million Americans have unclaimed property — amounting to more than $20 billion in assets.

Yahoo Finance editor Molly Moorhead joins Wealth! to explain how Americans can find and claim potential funds.

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This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino

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One in seven people have unclaimed property and that's more than $20 billion worth of money and assets just sitting around according to the National Association of unclaimed property, administrators here to break down how you can find and claim.

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Molly Moorhead, Molly.

You gotta take us into this one.

And, and how we find out what's unclaimed and if, if I'm owed something free money, right, all day long.

So, uh there are a variety of accounts that can commonly end up in unclaimed property and it's things like unclaimed pensions from an old job or a 401k from an old job, life insurance policy back pay again from previous jobs and then savings bonds.

You think about uh things that started out on paper and are now electronic, any of that can get lost and, but it's still yours and you should claim it.

So, where should people look?

Yeah.

Well, I've got several websites to tell you the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.

That's the federal agency that oversees private pensions.

Uh Lets you look for any pension in your name, with your uh name and last four digits of your social security number.

Uh life insurance policies.

You can look if you're a veteran, look uh on the va website and otherwise the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has a locator tool.

Labor department is where you go for unpaid wages, Treasury direct.

That's where you find savings bonds.

And then the best one, probably the best place to start really is missing money.com and this is gonna capture uh everything that aside from what I just mentioned and it will find um unclaimed accounts uh in your state.

So you would put your, your name in and your state and it will find anything that's gone to unclaimed property in your state.

And I wanna underscore it's free to search all these websites.

Wait.

So, so how, how exactly does this all happen?

Uh It's weird to think that we could all just have money out there, right, that we don't know about.

Um But it, I, I think of it as like with life events.

So if you move to a different state, if you change jobs, um anything like that where you might um move to a new account and forget about the old one.

So, uh it's, it's more common than you think and it's, it's very easy to search and it's worth it.

Ok.

So it seems like there's no harm in looking.

But am I really likely to strike gold here?

How many people are like, you know, chiming off on social media saying, oh my gosh, you won't believe the windfall that just came my way.

Ok. Well, I can tell you from personal experience that I search on my state site, you know, from time to time for myself and my family members, my husband, my parents and I just found $25 in my mother's name from the state toll agency.

So, you know, these accounts that you can create to automatically pay highway tolls.

There, there was an overpayment and so there's $25 in her name.

I recently heard from a colleague that her husband had been uh gifted stock in an old employer, never claimed it $16,000.

So I would call that striking gold.

Our studio manager, Mike in here, his eyes just popped out of his head.

Ok, Molly, thanks so much.

Uh We got some Googling to do as after we end this segment.

Thanks so much like grand appreciate it.