How to claim your unclaimed monies
Requirements for making a claim
The following directions relate to claiming monies held by Department of Treasury.
Before proceeding please use our Search facility to confirm which company holds your monies and to where you should direct your claim.
Claimants are asked to bear in mind that this office has a duty to ensure that money is only paid to the lawful owner or their authorised representative.
For verification purposes, claimants must provide Department of Treasury with:
- A Statutory Declaration
(Please see below)
- A copy of some form of personal ID
(eg Driver’s Licence, Passport, Health Care Card) and
- A copy of any document that confirms your entitlement to the money being claimed.
(Please refer to our On-Line search for details of the payee’s address and Payer/Source of the money claimed. You must provide copies of documents that can be matched to the Treasury & Finance records. Eg Documents that relate to the address or Payer/Source in our Register.)
- Any representative, or agent, must also provide written confirmation of their appointment.
(e.g. Power of Attorney, Probate, Agent Agreement. This authority is in addition to the first three points).
Note: The information listed in our Register is all that is known to this office and it is the responsibility of any claimant to provide Treasury with confirmation of their entitlement to any money claimed.
Please use one of the following downloads to print a Statutory Declaration and claim instructions.
Claim forms and instructions
The following forms are for claiming monies held by Department of Treasury.
Before proceeding please use our Search facility to confirm which company holds your monies and to where you should direct your claim.
Left click on the links below to open the files or use the right click and 'Save Target As' (with your choice of name)' to save the files to your computer.
- PDF Version of claim form
(To view this document you will require a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader (38.5Mb download) or Foxit Reader (7.6Mb download). The preceding links are not located on the Treasury Web site but are provided to help you find tools and information you may need to use materials from the Treasury Web site. These links do not represent an endorsement of the products or any commercial enterprise.)
- Word Version of claim form
List of acceptable Witnesses
The original Declaration must be signed by the claimant(s) in the presence of a Witness and, together with a copy of some form of claimant identification and supporting papers, forwarded to this office for assessment.
Due to office security requirements our Unclaimed Money officer is unable to meet personally with the public.
Unclaimed Money contact details