{"id":849,"date":"2010-05-23T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:26:59","slug":"find-your-missing-gift-card-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Find your missing (gift card) money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve reported on several occasions, States are getting more and more aggressive at appropriating gift card $$$ from retailers that are considered unredeemed.\u00a0 It is a long shot, but as Consumerist reports, it is worth <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/find-your-missing-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">checking States unclaimed property lists<\/a> to see if there is anything under your name.<\/p>\n<p>But, even if getting any gift card $$$ you&#8217;ve long forgotten about back is a long shot, it is a good practice to check unclaimed property lists periodically.\u00a0 Doing so about a year ago I found $1,500 that belonged to my wife (from her former employer) and around $1,000 that belonged to my brother-in-law&#8217;s sister.\u00a0 I also found about $100 that belonged to my father (long-dead AT&amp;T account overpayment).\u00a0 You never know what you will find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve reported on several occasions, States are getting more and more aggressive at appropriating gift card $$$ from retailers that are considered unredeemed.\u00a0 It is a long shot, but as Consumerist reports, it is worth checking States unclaimed property lists to see if there is anything under your name. But, even if getting any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}