Recently went to check my UPromise account and found out that, due to dormancy (only 6 years!), the accumulated funds (albeit a small amount) had been turned over to the Georgia Department. of Revenue. I pursued the UPromise link to the Department and sent an email asking to claim the funds. Not only did the Department immediately send me a response with a claim form, the claim form ALSO listed another bit of unclaimed property–a $50 check from an insurance company that had mailed it to a previous defunct address that I hadn’t lived at for four years. I never remembered this check was missing (that’s how long the insurance company must have taken to issue a check!). So now I get to claim the whole sum…it’s not whopping, but it’s mine!

Given that I could have easily never realized that I was missing either sum of money, I highly recommend that everyone try querying the Department of Revenue every 10 years or so to see if they have any of your property. I used to read about doing this is Clark Howard or elsewhere over the years but was sure it didn’t apply to me. Wrong!

The contact info I have is below. There may be a better way to do this but I have found the email contact to be quite easy.

Georgia Department of Revenue
Local Government Services Division
Unclaimed Property Section
4245 International Parkway Suite A
Hapeville, Georgia 30354-3918
UnclaimedProperty.Mail@DOR.GA.GOV