{"id":94,"date":"2005-03-06T02:15:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T07:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/06\/free-money\/"},"modified":"2014-09-13T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:51:57","slug":"free-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/06\/free-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to these websites, type in your name and they&#8217;ll tell you if there are any state &#8220;unclaimed monies&#8221; due to you. My friend Jen saw that I was owed money by the University of Massachusetts and gave me a call. I haven&#8217;t actually be able to claim the money yet but, yes, it&#8217;s totally legit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclaimed.org\/\">National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingmoney.com\">MissingMoney.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> <strong>update 3-18-05<\/strong>: Yup, the University of Massachusetts owes me about $600. I just have to provide my current address at the time. Ack! I don&#8217;t remember the exact address so I&#8217;m asking some MA friends if they can help out. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>update 9-10-14<\/strong>: It turned out that the money owed was because the registrar didn&#8217;t know to apply a payment to a class I took way back in the &#8217;90&#8217;s. So they turned the check over to the state. This actually turned out to be useful because it helped me deduce why I couldn&#8217;t get my transcript from them when applying to grad school! The State of Massachusetts owed me $653 and University of Massachusetts wanted $653 before they&#8217;d release my transcript. We sorted it all out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to these websites, type in your name and they&#8217;ll tell you if there are any state &#8220;unclaimed monies&#8221; due to you. My friend Jen saw that I was owed money by the University of Massachusetts and gave me a call. I haven&#8217;t actually be able to claim the money yet but, yes, it&#8217;s totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}