Are you owed $18,000?

Someone in Crook County is owed more than $18,000. Someone else recently found out they were entitled to almost $8000.

Though the State Treasurer’s Office Unclaimed Property Division paid out a record $7.4 million in unclaimed property over the last year, there are tens of millions of dollars still waiting to go back to the citizens they belong to.

“Each year we continue to get more money turned in to the State by businesses that cannot locate the owners of unclaimed property,” State Treasurer Curt Meier said in a statement about the new record.

“We work hard to reunite as much of this money a...