{"id":50672,"date":"2021-09-25T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50672"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:46:05","slug":"florida-has-returned-more-than-1-4-billion-in-unclaimed-property-do-you-have-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/09\/florida-has-returned-more-than-1-4-billion-in-unclaimed-property-do-you-have-any\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida has returned more than $1.4 billion in unclaimed property; do you have any?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida has returned more than $1.4 billion in unclaimed property to people over the past four years including $349 million dollars in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Florida-has-returned-more-than.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50673\" width=\"-14\" height=\"-7\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to items like jewelry, coins, and baseball cards the state keeps track of unclaimed bank accounts, stock dividends, and utility or rent deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis oversees the division of unclaimed property and says 1-in-5 Floridians have some type of unclaimed property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll be surprised. You may have $6, you may have $600,\u201d Patronis said. \u201cClaim it, fill out the form, submit it and we\u2019ll get you a check in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fltreasurehunt.gov\/ControlServlet?ActionForm=GotoNewPublicSearch\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to search the Florida unclaimed property website,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fltreasurehunt.gov\/ControlServlet?ActionForm=GotoNewPublicSearch\">FLTreasureHunt.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida has returned more than $1.4 billion in unclaimed property to people over the past four years including $349 million dollars in 2020. In addition to items like jewelry, coins,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50674,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50672\/revisions\/50674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}