We are back with Dale Folwell,
the North Carolina State Treasurer.
He's taking your questions about
getting your unclaimed cash.
This person is saying what kind of proof
is needed and what's the website again.
The website is in ccache.com, the
phone number. We have a call center is
919-418-4000 and and that's
the website that people go to
nccash.com.com OK 81481448144
thousand is the phone number.
In case you don't have a computer to
do that and so they're asking what
kinds of things do you need as proof.
Well, the first thing you need
is a Social Security number and
so that people won't be nervous.
It's the reason is that's
how the money comes to us.
If it's from a bank account or anything else,
it comes to us with an identifier
of a Social Security number,
and then they could ask you
for some proof of that.
You lived at the residence
that the claim is under,
right? This next question is,
is this only for Triad residents? Oh no.
Oh no, where's uh,
there's nearly a billion dollars
that didn't see cash.com 18 million
entries across North Carolina.
That's twice as many entries
as there are citizens.
And as I said in the earlier segment,
every state has an equivalent of nccash.com.
Just be very sure to go to the official
websites of those other states to make
sure that you're not on a website
that will try to charge you a fee.
No state government is supposed
to charge you.
Any fee to get access to your money?
Yeah, and right now in the
two wants to know section.
I put up your story and I've got
the NC cash link so all you have
to do is hit it and I also have
the link that takes you to all the
other states as well that are free.
Again. It is absolutely free for
you to find and get your money.
Alright, so this next person says how
long does it take after you find out
that you have money for it to reach you?
Well, you know Tom, you've had your own
experience where it took less than a week.
Yes, it was great.
That is the shortest amount of time.
Just how we're given what
the Postal Service does.
But if it's more complicated,
for example if it's a deposit at
a university for a a housing dorm
that you have been in in 15 years,
it could take a little longer to
produce that type of research.
So the more complicated it is,
the longer it takes,
and we also have an NC cash match program.
Right now we're actually sending
checks out automatically when our
computers determine everything
lines up with where the claim was
versus where you currently live.
Yeah, this next question says what
happens if you have a different last name.
Then you did like 15 years ago.
Uh. My simple answer to that is find
some documentation that shows that
you did have that last name and and
that that should be sufficient.
But you can check both of those names
and you should check both of your maiden
name or married name or whatever.
That's exactly right,
and you know earlier we talked about
joint tenant with writer survivorship.
Unfortunately, when you lose a spouse.
But unfortunately we also need
to talk about divorce situations.
I think we have a form on the
website that allows one of the
spouses to renounce their piece of
that just to expedite the claim.
This person says if you have a parent
that is deceased and they got money,
can the children accept the cash or
does it go then to the ex-husband?
I'm not really sure.
Now that's working, but if a
parent that is deceased got money,
is it the children that accept the
cash on behalf of their parents?
Uh, my non legal answer will be that
it would go to whatever the state
says that the rest of the assets
of that deceased person went to.
Yes, OK, so you have to be the one
who is in charge of the estate
to be able to then claim that.
And you know some of these things.
They take a little bit of time and
you may have to find some paperwork
and some things like that that
maybe you don't have right on hand.
That's exactly right, but once again,
we're we're smashing all records in
terms of getting more money into NC cash
every year and we've smashed all records
again this year and getting money out.
We with the help of the General
Assembly we are are making this
process as easy and so that it can
be expedited as as best as possible
and that's why we were able recently
to present $1000 to the international
Civil Rights Museum who had made a
deposit on a phone system several years
ago and then changed their PO Box.
Yeah, that's pretty cool of
how money gets there.
That's right.
I mean, it happens all the time.
All kinds of organizations and people.
They've got some money waiting,
so we want to make sure that
you can check it as well.
What we want you to do is go to the
Wfmy News 2 website and you look in
the two wants to know section and
there are direct links to ncache.com.