Dateline msnbc.com and your unclaimed and missing money

Families dealing with paying child support often have times making ends meet when supporting two homes. I know we have struggled for years to pay our own bills, though we have always paid the child support first and on time.

Wouldn't it be great to find out you had extra money you didn't realize you had. Did you know that you might have unclaimed money just sitting out there unclaimed? According to Dateline, there are 33 billion dollars in unclaimed monies between 17 million individuals. You might be rich and not know it! Anybody can be on the list from your grandmother to yourself to the rich celebrity in Hollywood.

I just watched a video from Dateline and msnbc.com about a show called "You Might Be Rich" where they find your unclaimed money and surprise people with it. They showed a segment where they found $2,760 of unclaimed monies for an elderly couple. That sure would be a nice surprise wouldn't it? How they do it is by utilizing computer records as well as archives of non-computerized records in storage, trying to locate you and what is yours. It's a feel good kind of show which is a nice change from some of the shows on television today.

You don't have to wait and hope to be on this show one day to find out if you have unclaimed money. You can check it out for yourself at www.unclaimed.org or www.missingmoney.com. I used Missing Money before. I didn't find my name on there but did find the names of a few people that I know.