Unclaimed money in Los Angeles
Updated
The California State Controller holds $71.4 million for 2,199 business-type owners with Los Angeles addresses whose open records total $10,000 or more each.
What the money is
The largest kinds of property held for Los Angeles business-type owners:
| Property type | Amount | What it usually is |
|---|---|---|
| Checking accounts | $7.0M | balances left in checking accounts after the bank lost contact with the account holder |
| Accounts payable | $5.6M | payments a company owed a supplier (accounts payable) that never got through, where the supplier is the owner |
| Insurance proceeds for beneficiaries | $4.9M | insurance proceeds payable to a named beneficiary, often a trust or a company |
| Underlying shares | $3.4M | the shares themselves, not just their dividends, after the account went dormant |
| Vendor checks | $3.0M | checks written to a vendor that were never cashed |
The typical Los Angeles owner on this list is owed $18,172, close to the statewide median of $18,087. 22% of the owners here are trusts or estates, which follow different claim rules from companies.
Claiming it
A Los Angeles business claims from the Controller like any California business: an authorized person signs the Controller's claim form in wet ink, in front of a notary for $1,000 or more in cash or for any securities, and the package includes proof of authority, the FEIN and the address the holder reported. With 40% of local owners holding more than one record, it pays to search every name and address the business has used.
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Source: California State Controller unclaimed property file, records of $500 and up, dated November 4, 2026. Open records only (no claim pending or paid), owner address in California, owner = name + ZIP code, business-type names only, government names removed, owners whose records total $10,000 or more. RecoverOwed computation; classifying owners by name pattern is approximate. No individual owner is named on this site. The headline count for Los Angeles comes from our first pass; the table and median come from a second pass with a slightly different name filter (2,142 owners, $70.2M).