30 million Americans don’t know they’re owed money

  • 6 months ago
TheStreet’s J.D. Durkin brings you the biggest news of the day, including how the market fared and why 30 million Americans are owed money the probably don’t now about.
Transcript
00:00 I'm JD Durkin reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
00:03 Stocks were in the green to close out this Friday trading session.
00:06 The Dow closed up 133 points.
00:09 The tech-heavy Nasdaq closed up 1.7 percent while the S&P 500 closed just over 1 percent
00:15 higher.
00:16 Investors are continuing to react, of course, to the shockingly strong January jobs report,
00:21 which showed that the U.S. economy added 353,000 jobs in January, yet another sign of a robust
00:28 job market.
00:29 Investors also reacting to meta earnings.
00:31 The stock witnessed a double-digit pop on Friday after reporting better-than-expected
00:35 results in its fourth quarter.
00:37 Investors are looking ahead to another busy week of earnings.
00:40 Pinterest, Snap, Disney, Spotify and several others all set to release quarterly results
00:45 next week.
00:46 In other news, millions of Americans have unclaimed cash or assets they might not even
00:50 know they're actually entitled to.
00:53 According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, more than 30 million
00:58 people have property that they've either forgotten about or never even knew they had.
01:03 This can include money from inactive bank accounts, checks that were sent to a previous
01:07 address, payouts from someone else's life insurance policy, or even uncashed paychecks.
01:13 The NAUPA has a website set up for Americans to see if they have, in fact, unclaimed property.
01:19 Just head on over to unclaimed.org/search and search the state you live in or previously
01:25 lived in.
01:26 Enter your name in the search box to see if you have any unclaimed property.
01:29 However, if you are looking for a big payday, you might want to temper those expectations
01:34 just a bit.
01:35 In 2022, more than $4 billion in unclaimed property was returned, but divided by 30 million
01:40 people, that comes out to an average of just $133 a person.
01:46 That'll do it for your daily briefing.
01:47 From the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, I'm J.D. Durkin with The Street.
01:50 Thanks.
01:50 [end]
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