Perhaps a distant relative you may not even have known of has expired and left an estate or a forgotten bank account. Payments to superannuation funds that have slipped your mind, unclaimed prize money. There are hundreds of reasons why people do not claim money they are owed.
Chances are you never think about looking for unclaimed money owing to you because you lead a busy life. For just that reason, millions of people around the world have money that they do not know about, or have forgotten about, sitting in government and private funds, rightfully due to them, but which stand unclaimed. Some bank accounts with unclaimed funds go back as far as 1900!
