Lost and found: How millions in unclaimed monetary property are being matched with rightful owners

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New Brunswick

It’s been over a year since the Financial and Consumer Services Commission launched the FundsFinderNB website, with a goal to reunite New Brunswickers with money they are owed. 

Forgotten credit balances, security deposits, refunds, investments can mean unexpected windfall for N.B.ers

Isabelle Leger · CBC News

· Posted: Feb 02, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Money

Businesses can report unclaimed property at FundsFinderNB.ca. That’s the same website New Brunswickers can use to find money they are owed. (CBC)

The goal to reunite New Brunswickers with money they are owed has paid out $2.1 million from hundreds of businesses reporting more than $35 million in unclaimed property, according to the Financial and Consumer Services Commission.

“What we’re talking about here is monetary property,” Marissa Sollows, director of communications and public affairs at the commission, said on CBC’s Shift. 

“Credit balances, security deposits, over-payments or refunds … investment accounts.”

The commission, which launched the FundsFinderNB website, is now urging businesses to do their part and report unclaimed property, which can now be dated back as far as 2014.   

A young woman with shoulder-length brown, curly hair, wearing white cat-eye frame glasses, a white top and black blazer, smiles at the camera.

Marissa Sollows is the director of communications and public affairs for the Financial and Consumer Services Commission. She says businesses are required to report their unclaimed property each year. (Financial and Consumer Services Commission)

She said a person,

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