LINCOLN — State Treasurer Joey Spellerberg is making a push to connect Nebraskans with their “lost cash.”
The effort marks National Unclaimed Property Day on Feb. 1, also recognized in Nebraska via a Gov. Jim Pillen proclamation Spellerberg requested.
The proclamation says Nebraska currently holds more than $250 million in unclaimed property that includes uncashed checks, insurance proceeds and other financial assets considered lost or abandoned when an owner can not be found. Spellerberg urged Nebraskans to search NebraskaLostCash.gov.
“You might just find a surprise waiting for you,” said Meaghan Aguirre, Nebraska’s unclaimed property director. Aguirre was recently elected president of the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators.
Nebraskans who have lived in multiple states can check the national database, MissingMoney.com. Searches on both sites are free of charge.
Nebraska for more than five decades has received millions of dollars annually turned over by entities that can not find the owners, according to the proclamation. The state has returned more than $300 million to rightful owners since implementation of its Unclaimed Property Program.
In 2025, the state returned nearly $20 million through 19,952 claims.
“Nebraska has streamlined the claims process, because we want these unclaimed dollars back in our local economies,” Spellerberg said.
He said unclaimed property exists in all of the state’s 93 counties, including $96 million in assets in the Omaha metro area, $28.6 million in Lincoln, $7 million in Bellevue, $5.1 million in Grand Island and $3.7 million in Kearney.