Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is encouraging residents to search for unclaimed property this Halloween. Individuals, businesses and organizations with names containing Halloween-related words are connected to more than $90 million held by Treasury.
Those words include Pumpkin, Monster, Bat, Spider, Costume, Scare, Cat, Candy, Treat, Trick, Haunted, Broom, Ghost and Witch.
Treasury receives hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed property each year, sometimes because of misspelled names or outdated addresses. Unclaimed property includes dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten stocks and physical items such as collectible coins, jewelry and savings bonds, often received from safe deposit boxes…