Individuals
Funds held under a former address, a maiden or previous name, or an account closed years ago. We search your full name history, not just your current one.
Unclaimed money recovery · Australia
There may be money held
in your name that you
don’t know about.
Every Australian state and territory holds unclaimed funds, and so do ASIC and AFSA. Reclaim Advisory searches all of them, prepares the evidence, and manages the claim from lodgement to payment.
Free eligibility check · Commission based · Recover nothing, pay nothing
Where we search for unclaimed money
Registers we search
- NSW
- VIC
- QLD
- WA
- SA
- TAS
- ACT
- NT
- ASIC
- AFSA
- Every state and territory, plus both national registers
The problem
Money gets separated from its owner more easily than you’d think.
When a payment cannot be delivered and the holder loses contact with you, the funds do not disappear. They are transferred to a government register and held indefinitely until someone claims them.
The catch is that nobody tells you. There is no letter and no notification. The money sits under a former address, a maiden name, a deregistered company or a trust that changed trustees, and it stays there until a claim is lodged.
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Moved address
Refunds, rebates and final payments sent to an address you left years ago.
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Closed accounts
Balances left behind when a bank account or facility was closed out.
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Deregistered companies
Funds owed to an entity that has since been wound up or deregistered.
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Name changes
Records held under a maiden name, former trading name or previous trustee.
What we do
We do the searching, the paperwork and the chasing.
01
Search & identification
We search every state and territory register, plus ASIC and AFSA, against your full history: previous names, former addresses, related entities and trusts. A single-name search in a single state misses most of it.
02
Evidence & documentation
Claims fail on proof, not entitlement. We assemble the identity documents, company records and chain-of-entitlement evidence each authority requires before it will release funds.
03
Lodgement & recovery
We lodge the claim, respond to requests for further information, and follow it through the authority’s process until the funds are released to you.
Who we act for
Three kinds of claimant, three different evidence trails.
Companies
Money owed to a trading entity, a subsidiary, or a company that has since been deregistered. Recovery here turns on establishing the corporate chain.
Trusts & estates
Holdings attached to a trust that has changed trustees, or to a deceased estate. These require the clearest documentary chain of any claim type.
The process
Four steps, and we carry the load on all of them.
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Step 1
Enquiry
You give us your name history and any related entities. Takes a few minutes.
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Step 2
Search
We search the registers and confirm whether there is anything held in your name.
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Step 3
Claim preparation
We build the evidence pack and complete the authority’s claim forms with you.
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Step 4
Recovery
We lodge, follow up, and stay on it until the funds are released to you.
Coverage
Every state and territory, not just one.
Unclaimed money is held separately by each jurisdiction, and there is no single national list that captures all of it. Money can sit in a register belonging to a state you left years ago, or with one of two Commonwealth bodies. We search all of them.
AFSA is the one most people miss. If you, or a company or trust you were connected to, has ever been through bankruptcy or an insolvency process, there may be funds held there that never appear on any state register.
States & territories
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New South Wales
Revenue NSW
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Victoria
State Revenue Office Victoria
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Queensland
Public Trustee of Queensland
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Western Australia
WA Department of Treasury
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South Australia
SA Department of Treasury and Finance
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Tasmania
Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance
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Australian Capital Territory
ACT Public Trustee and Guardian
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Northern Territory
Northern Territory Treasury
National
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ASIC
Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Bank accounts, life insurance policies and company holdings transferred to the Commonwealth.
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AFSA
Australian Financial Security Authority
Money from bankruptcies, personal insolvency agreements and debt agreements, including undistributed dividends.
Timeframes are set by the authority, not by us. Straightforward individual claims are usually quickest. Company, trust and deceased estate claims take longer because the evidence requirements are heavier. We will give you a realistic estimate once we have seen what is involved in your matter.
We work on commission. The search and the initial eligibility check cost you nothing, and our fee is a percentage of what is actually recovered. If we recover nothing, you owe us nothing. The exact rate is agreed in writing before any work begins.
To begin, just your name, including any previous names, and the names of any companies, trusts or entities you have been associated with. That is enough for us to search. Identity and supporting documents are only needed later, if a claim is actually lodged.
Yes. Your details are used only to search for and pursue unclaimed money on your behalf, and are never sold or passed on for marketing. Our Privacy Policy sets out exactly what we collect, who we disclose it to, and how to access or correct it.
Find out if there is money in your name.
Send us your details and we will search every state and territory register, plus ASIC and AFSA. If there is nothing there, we will tell you. We are paid a percentage of what we recover, so if you recover nothing, you pay nothing.