Staff from the state Treasurer’s office spent the day in Washington Monday hoping to return unclaimed property to residents. The office held four I-Cash events in the city. The goal was to re-connect residents with everything from unpaid wages and safe deposit box contents to paid-up life insurance policies.
Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford says it was important for the office to spend the day in Washington nearly a year after last November’s devastating tornado.
“A lot of times when a disaster hits, there’s all the politicians and the pontifications and priests and everybody else that’s highly attentive. And then times goes on and some people maybe don’t have as much awareness of it except those that are actually physically standing in their own communities. That’s when I said we’re going to dedicate this entire day, all of the staff, everybody dispatched in one city and it’s all in Washington,” said Rutherford.
Rutherford says his office estimates more than 50-thousand residents with property in Tazewell County have nearly nine-million dollars in unclaimed property. A link to the state treasurer’s I-Cash database in available here.