Unclaimed property
Pennsylvania returned a record $334 million in unclaimed property, with $5 billion still held
A record year returned $334.1M, and the state still holds more than $5B owed to one in ten Pennsylvanians. Finding owners is a goal that only ever gets partly done.
- Pennsylvania Treasury
returned in 2025, a record
Pennsylvania Treasurystill held by the Treasury
Pennsylvania TreasuryPennsylvanians owed property; average claim over $1,000
Pennsylvania TreasuryWhat happened
The story, from the record.
On February 18, 2026 the Pennsylvania Treasury reported that it had returned $334.1 million in unclaimed property during 2025, beating the previous record of $272.2 million set in 2024.
The Treasury still holds more than $5 billion. More than one in ten Pennsylvanians is owed something, and the average claim is over $1,000. The 2025 total included $18.9 million returned to 113 counties, municipalities and school districts, about $50 million returned automatically through the new Money Match program in its first year, and 548 military decorations, among them 13 Purple Hearts.
The property keeps arriving: dormant accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten deposits, turned over by companies that could not find the owner either.
On both sides, the public one and the corporate one, this is the same goal: find a person whose address stopped working, tell them, and get them to act. Thousands of small cases, none worth a caseworker's week, all worth a letter and a call.
How OneShot would run it
The goal this leaves open.
OneShot was not involved in this event. This is how the goal it describes would run as one OneShot goal: the objective, the steps per case, and the list price of each.
Before a company's annual filing, reach every owner on the dormant list with a letter and a call, and resolve the accounts that can be resolved.
- 01$0.021
Trace the owner
Match each dormant account to a living person or an operating business: a current address, a phone, and an email that verifies.
- Profile Enrichment
- People Discovery
- Email Verification
- Local Business Resolve
- 02$0.006
Find the heirs
Where the owner has died or the business has closed, research who inherits or succeeds it. Run only for accounts above the value floor.
- Deep Research Person
- Article Search
- 03$2.51
Send the required notice
Mail the due-diligence letter each state requires, on its deadline, and email and text the same notice where an address exists.
- Physical mail
- Email send
- SMS
- 04$1.06
Call and confirm
Call owners who have not answered, confirm identity against the account, and reactivate it or arrange the payout. Replies to the letter are read from the inbox.
- Voice call time
- Call analysis
- Email Inbox
- 05$0.018
File what remains
Complete each state's holder report on its own portal for the accounts nobody claimed, with a receipt for every notice behind it.
- Browser
About $3.62 per case at list prices. Spend limits cap the run; every paid action returns a signed receipt; anything over your approval threshold waits for a person.
Sources
Where the figures come from.
- Pennsylvania Treasurychecked Oct 3, 2026
