About Unclaimed Property
What is Unclaimed Property?
The Tennessee Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act requires that all businesses or other organizations review their records annually to determine if they are in possession of any funds due to another person that have been unclaimed for the required time period. Below are some examples:
- Unclaimed Vendor Checks
- Unclaimed Payroll Checks
- Unclaimed Pension Checks
- Deposits held
- Debit Accounts
- Refunds due for overpayment
How Does Property Become Abandoned?
- If you moved and forgot to notify Metro of your new address.
- If you were a Metro employee and never returned to receive your last paycheck.
- If you overpaid Metro for a service or fee, but did not use the credit.
- If you received payment from Metro, but did not cash the check in a timely manner.
- A payment was issued to the address listed in Metro’s vendor database, but your forwarding notice at the post-office expired.
- If a payment was marked undeliverable by the post office and was returned to Metro in error.
- If you previously authorized Metro payments to you by direct deposit, but forgot to notify Metro of your new address and / or bank account.
- If property was left in the care of the government, but was not retrieved.
Contact Unclaimed Property
Metropolitan Government of Nashville
& Davidson County
Division of Unclaimed Property
P.O. Box 196300
Nashville, TN 37219-6300
Telephone: 615-862-6100, then press 5 for Unclaimed Property
Hours: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Central Monday-Friday, closed Holidays