Owners FAQ

To file a claim you will need a claim form and positive proof that you are the rightful owner. more info > >

Please visit our forms section.

• You may call our office at (602) 364-0380 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to request a claim form.
• Send an email to our office. In your email please note that you do not have a printer and need a claim form mailed to you. Also, include the name found in our database (or the claim inquiry number) and your mailing address.

Our on-line database is updated once a month on the first working day. If your name was added to our database during the month, your name will not appear until the next update of the on-line database.

The original owner as reported to our office by the company holding the funds. Heirs of the original owner, the Personal Representative (if the estate is currently in probate), or a beneficiary. For more information refer to the Filing a Claim page on our web site.

There could be a number of reasons the holder didn't contact you before reporting and transferring the property as unclaimed.

• The company may have sent a letter and it could have been delivered to another address by mistake.
• There may have been a merger or acquisition of the company. The acquiring company may not have had time to send notices before the property was reported to the state.
• Companies are not required to notify owners of items under $50 prior to reporting and transferring it to us.

• If a company does not report an address with a name the claimant will be required to provide proof that they did business with the company who reported the property.
• Examples of proof might be a receipt or statement with the original owner's name and the company name.
• If you have never done business with the company reporting the property then the funds may belong to someone else.

Ownership of unclaimed property will not revert to the State until 35 years after it was reported, and you may submit a claim at any time during that period.  Safe deposit box contents and securities are liquidated within three years of receipt; however, the proceeds remain the property of the original owners for the remainder of the 35 year period.

Claims are processed within 90 days of receipt. If the claim was for shares of stock or mutual fund shares, it may take up to 120 days to receive your shares.

The following link http://www.unclaimed.org will take you to a national site that contains links to the other 49 states and the District of Columbia.

Owners and their heirs do not need to pay a finder's fee to anyone to claim funds being held by the State of Arizona .

To ensure confidentiality, specific dollar amounts will not be given out over the phone until a claim is received.