I'm frustrated with the California unclaimed property website and controller's office. They produce a website for you to look up if you had any unclaimed bank account / etc. assets turned over to the state, and then make you prove who you are with identification, addresses, etc.
Then, a letter saying the claim is denied because "you did not provide our office with the original negotiable instrument (e.g. cashier's check, traveller's check, money order, or unredeemed gift certificate, bond or coupon)".
Well, if I had that, I wouldn't be trying to find out / recover this asset via their last resort system? I mean it's only $50 so it's no big loss to let it go. But what do they expect me to produce if I don't even know exactly where this came from? And if they verified it's me, why should I have to prove the form of original payment? Very frustrating.
I guess the state just gets to keep the money now.
Submitted October 01, 2021 at 12:18AM by kepler1 https://ift.tt/3A2U2mR
