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MissingMoney.com

MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds. It was established in November 1999, as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree. By December of that year, 10 states had joined. The website is now operated by Kelmar Associates, LLC on behalf of the NAUPA. , 39 states were participating in the program. As of 2024, 49 states were participating in the program. The only state not using MissingMoney.com is Hawaii, but the website contains information on how to search for unclaimed property in each state. The province of Alberta in Canada and the US Territory of Puerto Rico are also participants. Each unclaimed property department maintains their own website to search, but MissingMoney.com is the only website endorsed by NAUPA to help reunite owners with their missing funds. As of 2022, when Kelmar Associates began operating the site, there are no advertisements found on MissingMoney.com, and there is no fee to search for property.

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MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds. It was established in November 1999, as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree. By December of that year, 10 states had joined. The website is now operated by Kelmar Associates, LLC on behalf of the NAUPA. , 39 states were participating in the program. As of 2024, 49 states were participating in the program. The only state not using MissingMoney.com is Hawaii, but the website contains information on how to search for unclaimed property in each state. The province of Alberta in Canada and the US Territory of Puerto Rico are also participants. Each unclaimed property department maintains their own website to search, but MissingMoney.com is the only website endorsed by NAUPA to help reunite owners with their missing funds. As of 2022, when Kelmar Associates began operating the site, there are no advertisements found on MissingMoney.com, and there is no fee to search for property.

Key claims

  1. date of establishment: 1999 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1999". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376129291

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.