{"id":6116,"date":"2013-02-21T22:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2013-02-21T22:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:45:54","slug":"recovered-money-and-this-isnt-even-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/recovered-money-and-this-isnt-even-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovered Money (and this isn&#8217;t even spam!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 22 years in limbo, I recovered $700 from the State of Massachusetts. Wow. 22 years?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short form<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/MissingMoney.com\">MissingMoney.com<\/a> is totally legit. Go there, type in your last name and your state and it&#8217;ll tell you if that state owes you any money<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long form<\/strong>: About 8 years ago my friend Jen told me she noticed the State of Massachusetts owed me $653.25 according to MissingMoney.com. I eventually figured out that when I went to UMass Boston, they apparently didn&#8217;t know what to do with one of the tuition checks my family had given them. I \u00a0followed up on it but since I couldn&#8217;t prove that I lived at that particular address, the state wouldn&#8217;t give me my money back. Then 7 years ago Charlotte tried with vigor to find some legal documents for me in the Somerville courthouse \u00a0so I could prove my address but she couldn&#8217;t find them. Last year I tried to get my transcript from UMass Boston for my application to grad school and the issue cropped up again. They wouldn&#8217;t give me my transcript because of what I &#8220;owed them&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>I paid the money owed but was determined to claim the money. Happily, the Registrar at UMass Boston was happy to work with me. After some back and forth, she sent a letter to me proving my address. And a mere 5 months later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6117\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_-300x135.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_-200x90.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_-600x271.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_-50x22.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/UMass-MissingMoney.com_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my money back, with interest!<\/p>\n<p>Now go to <a href=\"http:\/\/MissingMoney.com\">MissingMoney.com<\/a> and get your money back!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 22 years in limbo, I recovered $700 from the State of Massachusetts. Wow. 22 years? Short form: MissingMoney.com is totally legit. Go there, type in your last name and your state and it&#8217;ll tell you if that state owes you any money Long form: About 8 years ago my friend Jen told me she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}