The unclaimed property program's efforts to identify owners through database matching and then notify them of their unclaimed property through direct mail appears to have saved approximately $99,000 during Fiscal Year 1998-99.
However, the department has not developed an accurate means of tracking the cost and effectiveness of each notification method it uses.
The Legislature has not amended the law to protect owners of unclaimed property from paying unnecessary fees for heir finder agreements.

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