Step 1 · Their legal name
We start with the name their money is held under.
Pensions, old insurance policies, matured bonds, and state-held accounts are all filed under a legal name. We need your loved one's name exactly as it would have appeared on a driver's license or Social Security card — plus any prior or maiden names they ever used, since many older records were filed pre-marriage.
Comma-separated. About 38% of 2025 matches for married women were filed under a pre-marriage surname — a bond bought at birth, an account opened before marriage.
Why these fields
Every US unclaimed-property registry keys on legal name. Running the full variant set (middle-initial, maiden, diacritic, common-misspelling) is where our matching algorithm actually earns its keep — and where most free tools miss what was meant for you.
★★★★★
“My mom had a savings account from the 90s that went dormant after she moved. The state had been holding it in her name for 18 years — nobody had ever written to us. The report walked me through the NAUPA claim form in one page.”
Jennifer M. · California · daughter
$3,240 recovered