Let’s Find Money › Canada › Government-held unclaimed property
🇨🇦 Canada

Government-held unclaimed property

When a business cannot find you, it is often legally required to hand what it owes you to a government unclaimed-property office rather than keep it. That covers uncashed payroll cheques, utility and rental deposits, credit balances, refunds and insurance payouts. The office holds it — in many places indefinitely — until you claim it.

You may have this if…

Where to search — 2 official destinations

These are the organisations that actually hold this money. Open them directly. You will not be asked to pay to search.

✓ Verified 2026-09-13

Alberta Unclaimed Property Register

Run by Government of Alberta

What it covers
Property held in Alberta and turned over to the province — uncashed cheques, deposits, credit balances and similar.
How the claim works
Search the public register, then submit a claim with proof of identity and of your connection to the property.
Open the official service ↗

Source: Official Government of Alberta page on alberta.ca, which links to the province's own search at unclaimedproperty.alberta.ca.
How we checked: We confirmed this URL in the operator's own official index on 2026-09-13; the page body blocks automated readers.

✓ Verified 2026-09-13

Revenu Québec — Register of Unclaimed Property

Run by Revenu Québec

What it covers
Unclaimed property administered by Revenu Québec, including successions without heirs, and financial assets held in Québec.
How the claim works
Search the public register, then follow Revenu Québec's claim procedure. Revenu Québec charges published fees to administer and return unclaimed property. For financial assets between 1 April 2026 and 31 March 2027 that is 10% of the property value (minimum $60, maximum $1,211), plus taxes; successions and the liquidation of property carry different fees. Read the fees page before you claim.

Revenu Québec: deadlines and fees for claiming property ↗

Open the official service ↗

Source: Official Revenu Québec page on revenuquebec.ca, confirmed in the operator's own site index. Fee rates: Revenu Québec's page "Deadlines and Fees for Claiming Property", read 2026-10-14.
How we checked: We confirmed this URL in the operator's own official index on 2026-09-13; the page body blocks automated readers.

Your next steps

  1. Gather what identifies you. Old addresses, maiden or former names, account or policy numbers, employer names and the years you were there. Most searches are by name, and old names matter.
  2. Search every name you have used, and every spelling. Records are entered by hand and get misspelt.
  3. Search for relatives too if you may be an heir or nominee — these amounts are commonly sitting under a parent's name.
  4. Claim directly with the organisation that holds it. They will ask for proof of identity and proof of your link to the money. That is normal. A request for money from someone who contacted you first is not. A few official programmes charge a published fee; read it on the operator's own site before you claim.
  5. Expect it to take weeks, not minutes. Official verification is slow. Slowness is a sign you are in the right place, not the wrong one.

⚠️ Before you pay anyone, read this

  • Searching is free everywhere on this site. Every destination we route you to is an official government or regulator service that does not charge you to look.
  • You don’t need to pay anyone to search. Be wary of anyone asking for an upfront fee.
  • Be wary of anyone who asks you for money first. An advance fee, a processing charge, or a tax payable up front, asked by someone who contacted you or advertised to you, is the single clearest sign of a scam. A few official programmes do charge a published fee, so read the amount on the operator’s own site before you claim.
  • Type the address yourself, or use our link. Do not follow links from an unexpected email, SMS or WhatsApp about unclaimed money, and do not scan a QR code to receive a payout.
  • Nobody legitimate needs your password, OTP or full card number to help you find unclaimed money.
Let’s Find Money does not hold, recover, or guarantee any funds. We are not a government service and we are not affiliated with any of the organisations we link to. We do not search on your behalf. Our search tools don’t see your results. Case review is not open yet; when it is, we will keep only the contact details you choose to send, and only to reply to you. What we do is point you to the official service that actually holds the money, so you can search it yourself, free. Rules, eligibility and processes are set by those organisations and can change — always read their own guidance.