HOPKINS COUNTY, KY - On November 10, the city of Madisonville, along with Kentucky State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach,  hosted the State Treasure Finders program. This program is designed to locate people within the state of Kentucky that have uncollected finances from their past. The event was held at the Fiscal Court Building where people showed up to have their names checked for money owed to them.

One man from Muhlenberg County, Jay Durall,  heard about the program through iSurf News and, after doing a random check on several of his friends and family members, decided to run his own name through. As it turned out, his name was on the list of those owed money. Durall was owed over $400.00 by the Wal-Mart Corporation. According to Durall, the unclaimed funds came as quite a surprise.

"I worked at Wal-Mart during my college years, but I had no idea that when I left there was still money owed to me," Durall told iSurf Reporters.

Even after the massive amounts of money collected by local individuals during the event, there is still a very considerable amount of funds awaiting collection by Hopkins County and surrounding county citizens filed in the Treasure Finders database. The amounts that claimants can receive will vary. One woman from Eastern Kentucky found she had $100,000.00 in stocks that she was unaware of. In Hopkins County, Marion Miller of Hopkins County discovered $75.00 owed to her.

You can search the database online and see if you are owed money by going to https://secure.kentucky.gov/treasury/unclaimedProperty/Default.aspx. For more information, the Kentucky State Treasury invites you to visit the KST website at http://treasury.ky.gov .

J. L. Graham
iSurf News