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State Treasurer Dan Rutherford stopped in Peoria to tout changes to the I-Cash program. The program used to be called Cash-Dash and allows residents to check online if they have money, stocks, or property that’s been abandoned for five years and is being held by the state. Rutherford says nearly 800,000 claims were recently added to the program’s online database from before a computer upgrade took place in 1992. “780,000 claims: the only way anyone would ever be able to check it is if they physically came to the Office of State Treasurer in Chicago or Springfield and asked. That’s not going to happen,” Rutherford says.
“So we were able to configure it, put the investment in, and we put 780,000 additional names into the data base. So if you checked it last week, check it again now, you just might be there.”
Rutherford says there are nearly 75,000 items of unclaimed property in Peoria County. Rutherford says that amounts to nearly $18 million that could be returned to residents. He says more than $100 million was returned to residents who owned assets across the state. Rutherford says people can find out if they have unclaimed property by visiting www.icash.illinois.gov.
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