Currently New York State alone is holding billions of dollars of money, which people have not claimed. Mostly this is money  that has been turned over to the state because the account  has been dormant or inactive for a long  period  of  time. Mostly  these   are accounts such as  old  bank  accounts,  utility  deposits,  security deposits, insurance benefits, unclaimed refunds, stock dividends, trust funds, etc. the amounts of unclaimed money can vary greatly. There are clients who have received some very large  sums  –  in the tens of thousand of dollars – of money  that  they  didn’t  know they had coming to them.