Anaheim Unclaimed Property: $84.9 Million Held by the State

• Anaheim addresses account for 110,033 unclaimed property records worth a combined $84,987,539 held by the California State Controller.
• Most Anaheim records are modest: the average is $772, though 935 records are worth $10,000 or more.
• The largest categories are premium refunds, unpaid wages, and miscellaneous outstanding checks from insurers, banks and employers.
• There is no deadline to claim California unclaimed property, so even a decades-old Anaheim address is still worth searching.
• A recovery fee is capped at 10 per cent of property reported under CCP §1530, though probated estates are governed separately and fall outside that cap.

How much unclaimed property is tied to Anaheim?

Our index currently shows 110,033 unclaimed property records connected to Anaheim addresses, together worth $84,987,539. These are individual entries reported to the California State Controller by banks, insurers, employers and other holders under Code of Civil Procedure §1530, after they lost contact with the owner. The average record is worth $772, but 935 of them are worth $10,000 or more, so the range runs from small forgotten refunds to sums that matter.

The address on a record is the last one the holder had for the owner when the account went dormant. That means some of these records belong to people who have since moved away from Anaheim, and some belong to people who moved in after the property was reported. Either way, the only way to know is to search by name.

What kinds of property show up under Anaheim addresses?

The most common categories reported for Anaheim are ordinary and unglamorous, which is exactly why so much of it goes unclaimed. Premium refunds top the list at 7,148 records worth $2,400,755, followed closely by wages, payroll and salaries at 6,950 records worth $2,252,088.

• Premium Refunds — 7,148 records, $2,400,755
• Wages, Payroll, Salaries — 6,950 records, $2,252,088
• Refunds Due — 6,543 records, $2,365,457
• Misc Outstanding Checks — 5,914 records, $2,360,623
• Other — 4,500 records, $1,695,246
• Credit Bal – Accts Receivable — 4,219 records, $1,967,916

A final paycheck from a job left years ago, a refund from a canceled insurance policy, or an overpayment a landlord or utility never returned: these are the kinds of everyday transactions that end up on the Controller’s books.

Which companies reported the most from Anaheim?

A handful of large holders account for a disproportionate share of Anaheim’s records. Wells Fargo Bank NA reported the most in two separate filings, and MetLife Inc. reported the highest combined value.

• Wells Fargo Bank Na (Apecs 1009) — 2,037 records, $1,663,797
• Metlife Inc. — 1,974 records, $2,155,702
• Interinsurance Exchange Of The Automobil — 1,152 records, $260,966
• Interinsurance Exchange Of The Automobile Club — 1,072 records, $259,256
• Citibank N A — 1,066 records, $419,217
• Wells Fargo Bank Na — 944 records, $1,061,260

If you banked with, insured with, or worked for any of these organizations while living in or near Anaheim, it is worth checking whether your name appears among their reported accounts.

Is there a deadline to claim it?

No. California places no deadline on claiming unclaimed property. The State holds it indefinitely until the owner or their heirs come forward, and money reported decades ago is just as claimable today as it was the year it was filed (State Controller, Unclaimed Property). The one exception is an estate that has been permanently escheated, meaning the State has already taken title. Those are not recoverable, and no legitimate firm can change that.

This means an Anaheim record from an employer that closed in the 1990s, or a bank account from a branch that no longer exists, can still be pursued now.

What does it cost to have someone claim it for you?

You are never required to hire anyone to claim California unclaimed property. If you use California Unclaimed Property Services, our fee is a percentage of what is actually recovered, and we are paid only after the State approves the claim and the money is released. No fee may be collected before that point (CCP §1582(a)(1)(B)).

For property reported under §1530, which covers the great majority of Anaheim’s 110,033 records, state law caps a recovery fee at 10 per cent of what is recovered (CCP §1582(a)(2)(C)). That cap does not extend to estates that reach the State through county probate; the Controller has confirmed there are no fee restrictions on those filings, since they arrive under the Probate Code rather than §1530. An owner may also challenge any recovery agreement at any time as based on excessive or unjust consideration. Our full breakdown of the fee rules is on our finder-fee law page.

What about Anaheim estates going through probate?

Some unclaimed money never passes through the standard §1530 reporting process at all. It arrives at the State through county probate when a person dies and an estate is settled, and it is tracked separately in the Controller’s Estates of Deceased Persons File, refreshed every April and October. Across our full index we track 37,166 probate estates, of which 4,438 remain claimable, holding roughly $59,038,273 in aggregate.

We do not currently have an Anaheim-specific breakdown of that file to share, but if you are the heir or executor of an estate connected to Anaheim, it is worth checking separately from the property search. See our page on probate estates and the second State file for what that process looks like, and how-to-claim as an heir or executor for the documents involved. Questions of who is legally entitled to inherit are for a probate attorney, not for us.

How do I find out if any of this is mine?

The only reliable way to know whether any of Anaheim’s $84,987,539 belongs to you is to search by your own name, and by the names of any relatives who may have lived there. Start with our search tool, which checks against our index of over 14.6 million property records statewide, not just the ones tied to Anaheim.

If a match turns up, our how-to-claim guide walks through what the State requires, including which claims need notarization and what documents to gather. If you would rather not manage the paperwork yourself, our full-service recovery handles the claim on your behalf, and you pay only if money is actually recovered.

Questions People Ask

Figures on this page are from our copy of the State Controller’s published file as it stood on 1 October 2026. The State republishes the file weekly, so current totals will differ. Search is always against the latest copy.