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As of October 2007, it was calculated by the Office of the State Treasurer of SC that the state is currently holds more than $200 million that is owed to citizens who only need to step forward and claim it, if they can locate it. In spite of increased efforts to reunite South Carolina unclaimed money with its rightful owners, which lead to a record annual return of $900,000 in September 2007, the pile of cash is still growing.

Each year, SC, like the majority of states, continues see more money turned in than it is able to return to the rightful owners. The main problem is the fact that the majority of people are not aware that these funds even exist, which is obvious, or they would likely never have abandoned them long enough for them to be considered "unclaimed". Even the few who have heard about the billions of dollars in unclaimed property across the nation usually do not have a clue how to go about finding them.

(to be continued)

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