Claim Your Cash Florida: Search for Your Unclaimed Property (Credit Where Due to CFO Ingoglia)

Cash, checks and an envelope on a desk, text: Florida may be holding your money, search your name at ClaimYourCashFL.gov

September 17, 2026

CREDIT WHERE DUE.

The State of Florida is currently holding more than $3 billion that does not belong to it: forgotten bank accounts, uncashed paychecks, utility deposits, insurance benefits, stocks. About one in five Floridians has something sitting in that pile, and there is a decent chance somebody reading this is one of them.

On Monday, September 15, CFO Blaise Ingoglia relaunched the state's abandoned-property program as Claim Your Cash Florida. It comes with a new site at ClaimYourCashFL.gov, a consumer-education and fraud-prevention push, and expanded outreach. He also handed the University of Central Florida a check for $41,716 in abandoned property the university had no idea it was owed, money UCF is putting into its Student Emergency Fund. For a county whose engineers built the space program that built UCF, that one lands close to home.

Let me be precise about status, because it matters. This is not a new law and not a tax cut. No statute changed, the Division of Unclaimed Property still runs the program, and the claim rules are the same. What changed is the name, the website and the advertising. A rebrand is not a reform.

But it is the right use of the office, and the principle is worth naming: private property. The state is a custodian of this money, not an owner of it. It has no claim on a dime of it, there is no deadline on most of it, and the search is free. The Department will never text you, and you never need to pay anybody a cut to file. Making it easier to find is a legitimate thing for a Chief Financial Officer to spend his time on.

Take ninety seconds and search your own name. Then search your parents'.

Source: Florida CFO press release, "CFO Blaise Ingoglia Launches Claim Your Cash Florida," Sept. 15, 2026 (myfloridacfo.com).

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Political advertisement paid for and approved by Josiah Gattle for Brevard Republican State Committeeman.

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