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Enter a name exactly as it may have appeared on an old account. We search the State Controller’s published records under every reasonable variant of it, not just the spelling you typed.

16 exact, and 1 close matches worth a look

Worth $17,619 in total. A match is not proof — the State holds many people with the same name, and establishing which record is yours is the real work of a claim.

The State holds 196 records under the surname Gatewood, worth $176,469. See every city and first name they are recorded under

  • Strong match

    Letha J Gatewood

    Unclaimed refund · Vacaville, CA

    Reported by United Healthcare Services Inc

    $267.92
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    State ID 1000380417

  • Strong match

    Letha Gatewood

    Escrow balance · Vacaville, CA

    Reported by Citimortgage Inc.

    $266.07
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    State ID 986374417

  • Strong match

    Letha Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · Vacaville, CA

    Reported by Verizon Communications Inc.

    $141.96
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    State ID 1017147958

  • Worth checking

    Linda Jean Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · San Jose, CA

    Reported by Transamerica Life Insurance Company

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $8,522.75
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    State ID 993535368

  • Worth checking

    Lavell Gatewood

    Stocks or securities · Gardena, CA

    Reported by National Financial Services Llc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $4,395.65 Southwest Airlines Co
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    State ID 977555412

  • Worth checking

    Lavell Gatewood

    Escrow balance · Gardena, CA

    Reported by Homeward Residential Inc.

    $908.61
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    State ID 976109881

  • Worth checking

    Leroy Gatewood

    Stocks or securities · Santa Maria, CA

    Reported by Metlife Inc

    A claim on this will have to be notarized.

    $516.37 Metlife Inc
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    State ID 16287719

  • Worth checking

    Liza Gatewood

    Uncashed check · Norwalk, CA

    Reported by Exeter Finance Llc

    $496.71
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    State ID 1047672780

  • Worth checking

    Laura B Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Nationwide Life Insurance Co

    $476.44
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    State ID 974857422

  • Worth checking

    Leslie Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · Fresno, CA

    Reported by Paypal

    $379.11
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    State ID 1036734988

  • Worth checking

    Louise F Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · Bakersfield, CA

    Reported by The Independent Order Of Foresters

    Held jointly with 1 other person

    $346.62
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    State ID 998772617

  • Worth checking

    Laura B Gatewood

    Trust funds · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Temper Of The Times Investor Services In

    $226.20
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    State ID 989096869

  • Worth checking

    Gatewood

    Unclaimed refund · Richmond, CA

    Reported by Pacific Gas & Electric Company

    Someone has already filed a claim on this property. It may be you, or it may not.

    $215.91
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    State ID 14523939

  • Worth checking

    Liza Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · Lakewood, CA

    Reported by Paypal

    $134.14
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    State ID 1029231328

  • Worth checking

    Lucia N Gatewood

    Cash held by the State · San Francisco, CA

    Reported by Capital One Accounts Payable And Credit

    $116.11
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    State ID 18984004

  • Worth checking

    Larry Gatewood

    Trust funds

    Reported by California Correctional Institution

    $106.79
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    State ID 14601853

  • Worth checking

    Lee M Gatewood

    Uncashed check · Los Angeles, CA

    Reported by Wells Fargo Bank Na (apecs 1009)

    $101.24
    Start this claim

    State ID 1043716600

Tell us if this name comes up again

Banks and insurers hand accounts to the State Controller roughly twice a year, and the file grows every time. We will keep checking this name against each new file and write to you if it appears.

Only about this name, and you can stop it from any email. We do not sell or share the address.

How You Are Protected

Our fee is capped at ten per cent of what is recovered by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, and nothing is owed until the State Controller has paid you. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing.

There is no deadline. The State holds unclaimed property indefinitely, so nothing here is urgent.

A Second State File

1 probate estate carries that name

Separately from unclaimed accounts, the State Controller publishes the estates of deceased people that reached it through county probate. This file names the decedent and the heirs on record, which the main file does not.

1 more under that name that can no longer be claimed

When an estate goes unclaimed long enough, the State takes permanent title to it and no claim will be paid afterwards. These are shown because knowing what happened to a relative’s estate is worth something even when the money is gone. Nobody can recover these — if a firm offers to, that alone tells you what they are.

  • Gatewood Lilbianb

    Probate estate · San Diego County · 1981

    Matched on Gatewood Lilbianb (decedent)

    2 heirs named on the State’s record

    Permanently escheated — the State now owns this and it cannot be claimed.

    $0.00 closed

    State ID 956830564
    Case 12676

Fees on probated estates are not capped by the ten per cent rule that governs ordinary unclaimed property. How estate claims work, including what we would charge and why the difference exists.

Commissioned California Notary Public $15,000 surety bond Fee capped at 10% by state law Nothing owed until you are paid
10%
Maximum fee, by statute
Code of Civil Procedure §1582 caps any recovery fee at ten percent of the property returned.
$1,000
Notarization threshold
Cash claims at or above this must be notarized. So must all securities and safe deposit boxes.
7 days
Data refresh cycle
The State Controller republishes the full record set every Thursday, and we rebuild our copy from it.
None
Deadline to claim
California places no time limit. The State holds unclaimed property indefinitely.

How This Search Differs from the Official One

The State Controller’s own search matches what you type, and nothing else. Ours also finds maiden names, married names, initials, common misspellings, hyphen variants, and business names with and without their suffixes — because the record was created by whoever held the account, not by you.

Every result comes from the Controller’s own published file, which we rebuild weekly. Each one carries the State’s own property ID, so the record you are looking at is traceable to the source rather than to us.

What We Search Under

  • Your name as typed, plus initials and middle-name variants
  • Maiden and former married names, if you tell us them
  • Common misspellings and transposed letters
  • Former addresses in California
  • Business names with and without Inc., LLC, Co. and DBAs

How You Are Protected

Our fee is capped at ten per cent of what is recovered by Code of Civil Procedure §1582, and nothing is owed until the State Controller has paid you. If we recover nothing, you owe nothing.

California Unclaimed Property Services is a private asset recovery firm. We are not the California State Controller’s Office.

Find out in About Thirty Seconds

Give us a name and we will check the State Controller’s records under every reasonable variant of it. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.