Letter: Time to claim property

St. Croix County Treasurer Cheryl Slind and State Treasurer Dawn Marie Sass are working together to reunite you with your lost assets. Unclaimed property consists of financial assets that have had no activity for five years or more. This includes savings accounts, checking accounts, uncashed dividends, stock, customer deposits or overpayments, uncashed paychecks, life insurance policies and much more.

St. Croix County has created a Web site of unclaimed county property — this is available for viewing at www.co.saint-croix.wi.us (click on “St. Croix County Unclaimed Funds.”) There currently are 114 pages of unclaimed property just from the St. Croix County area. This is searchable by using Adobe 7.0 or just scroll down the list, which is in alphabetical order.

If you locate your name on the list, write down the property identification number at the far left and contact the state treasurer’s office via phone at (877) 699-9211 or in writing: Wisconsin State Treasurer’s Office, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 550, PO Box 7871, Madison WI 53703.

You can also go to the state’s Web site and fill out the necessary paperwork and submit the information requested.

For a statewide search, visit www.ost.state.wi.us and click on “Badger Bucks” — enter your name and/or identification number to see if you have any unclaimed funds statewide.

Editor’s Note:The Star-Observer published the St. Croix County list on April 10.

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