Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is encouraging residents to search for unclaimed property this Halloween. Individuals, businesses and organizations with names containing Halloween-related words are connected to more than $90 million held by Treasury.
Those words include Pumpkin, Monster, Bat, Spider, Costume, Scare, Cat, Candy, Treat, Trick, Haunted, Broom, Ghost and Witch.
Treasury receives hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed property each year, sometimes because of misspelled names or outdated addresses. Unclaimed property includes dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten stocks and physical items such as collectible coins, jewelry and savings bonds, often received from safe deposit boxes.
According to Treasury, more than one in 10 Pennsylvanians is owed unclaimed property, and the average claim exceeds $1,000. Garrity has returned more than $1.2 billion since taking office in 2021. Treasury holds more than $5 billion that it is working to return.
Residents can search Treasury’s database at searchandclaimpa.gov. Those who have lived in other states can also search MissingMoney.com for property held elsewhere.
