State governments hold unclaimed money from deceased estates, share dividends, salaries and wages, cheques, trust money, over-payments and proceeds of sale, to name a few.
Search for deceased estates
You will need to contact the public trustee in the state where the money is held. Here are contacts for each state:
- ACT: Public Trustee and Guardian for the ACT
- New South Wales: NSW Trustee and Guardian
- Northern Territory: Northern Territory Office of the Public Trustee
- Queensland: Public Trustee of Queensland
- South Australia: Public Trustee South Australia
- Tasmania: Public Trustee Tasmania
- Victoria: State Trustees Victoria
- Western Australia: Public Trustee Western Australia
Search for dividends and other money
Contact the following government agencies for unclaimed money such as dividends, salaries and wages, rent and rental bonds, cheques, trust money, over-payments, principal and interest, expenses, refunds, deposits, premiums, royalties, commissions, creditors, debentures, bonds, convertible notes and proceeds of sale.
Your state government agency may not hold all types of money listed above.
- ACT: Public Trustee and Guardian for the ACT
- New South Wales: Revenue NSW
- Northern Territory: Northern Territory Treasury
- Queensland: Public Trustee of Queensland
- South Australia: SA Department of Treasury and Finance
- Tasmania: Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance or phone (03) 6166 4188
- Victoria: State Revenue Office Victoria
- Western Australia: WA Department of Treasury