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Among the tens of billions of dollars in unclaimed money in the U.S., the state of OH is one of only a few states that house over one billion of it. According to the OH Dept. of Commerce's Division of Unclaimed Funds, that $1 Billion is spread out across 3.5 million different accounts. Even though thousands of these unclaimed accounts are returned to their rightful owners annually, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, Ohio takes in another 200,000 accounts annually, worth many more millions.

Like in the majority of states, OH has trouble returning unclaimed money to Ohioans for a variety of reasons, one of the most common of which is disbelief. To put it quite simply, the majority of people are simply not aware of missing money and the few that have heard of it, generally think it is some sort of scam, unless they hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Even those people that have recognized the reality of these billions of dollars in missing funds generally don't know the first thing about tracking down these funds.

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