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<\/a>Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced that more than $211 million in unclaimed cash and property was returned to Floridians during Fiscal Year 2011\/2012\u2014nearly 12 percent more than the previous fiscal year. Last year, the Bureau of Unclaimed Property approved nearly 300,000 claims to reunite Floridians with their unclaimed property. Just in community of Lehigh Acres there are 1000\u2019s of names.<\/p>\nIn Lehigh Acres if you have a last name ending in an \u201cA\u201d click here<\/a> with a \u201cB\u201d click here<\/a> all others check out www.FLTreasureHunt.org<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDuring these challenging economic times, I am proud that our Bureau of Unclaimed Property has been successful in reuniting a record number of Floridians with their unclaimed cash and property,\u201d CFO Atwater said. \u201cThrough their diligent, proactive efforts, we\u2019ve been able to get more money back in the pockets of hard working Floridians, where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n Currently, the bureau holds unclaimed property accounts valued at more than $1billion, mostly from dormant accounts in financial institutions, insurance and utility companies, securities and trust holdings. In addition to money and securities, unclaimed property includes tangible property such as watches, jewelry, coins, currency, stamps, historical items and other miscellaneous articles from abandoned safe deposit boxes.<\/p>\n During Jeff Atwater\u2019s tenure as CFO, the department has returned record amounts to Floridians\u2014more than $323.6 million since January 2011. Since the program\u2019s inception 50 years ago, the Bureau of Unclaimed Property has successfully returned $1.9 billion to Floridians.<\/p>\n