The state of Virginia has more than a billion dollars that belongs to you — at least some of you, anyway.
by Sarah Kleiner Varble
The General Assembly could use part of your money — $1.7 billion — to help offset a budget shortfall in the coming year, but you’d be able to get it back whenever you realized it had been missing. “That is a giant pile of money,” says Benjamin Jarvela, spokesman for the Virginia Department of the Treasury, which is the custodian of financial property that winds up with the state when no one claims it.…[ Read more ]