Unclaimed Property in Beverly Hills, CA: $97.9M on File

• The State Controller holds 81,320 unclaimed property records tied to Beverly Hills, worth $97,983,482 combined.
• 1,271 of those records are worth $10,000 or more; the average record is worth $1,205.
• Wages and payroll, group insurance benefit payments, and accounts payable are the most common categories of unclaimed property in Beverly Hills.
• There is no deadline to claim; the State holds property indefinitely until an owner or heir comes forward.
• A recovery firm's fee is capped at 10 per cent for property reported under §1530, though probated estates fall outside that cap.

How much unclaimed property does Beverly Hills have on file?

According to the State Controller’s published property records, Beverly Hills accounts for 81,320 individual unclaimed property entries, together worth $97,983,482. That figure covers everything from a few dollars in an old refund check to five-figure account balances. The average record is worth $1,205, but the distribution is uneven: 1,271 records are worth $10,000 or more, meaning a meaningful share of the total value sits in a relatively small number of accounts.

This is money reported to the State by banks, insurers, employers and other businesses after they lost contact with the owner, usually because of a change of address, a name change, or simple inattention. The State does not go looking for the owner beyond its initial notice. It holds the property and waits.

Which businesses reported the most unclaimed property tied to Beverly Hills?

A handful of large employers and insurers account for a disproportionate share of the Beverly Hills records. Nbcuniversal Media LLC reported 1,134 records worth $1,544,220, the largest single dollar amount among the top reporters. Plains Exploration & Production Company reported 1,413 records worth $1,481,802. Paramount Pictures Corporation reported 1,321 records worth $971,146, and Gep Administrative Services Inc. Dba En reported 1,210 records worth $942,729. Elevance Health Inc. and Anthem Inc., both insurers, reported 1,234 and 1,588 records respectively, together worth over $1.4 million.

If you worked for a studio, an oil and gas company, or held a health insurance policy through an employer in the Beverly Hills area, these names are worth checking against your own employment and insurance history.

What kinds of property are most common?

Wages, payroll and salary payments are the single largest category by dollar value: 5,985 records worth $5,555,953. This is typically a final paycheck, a bonus, or a payroll adjustment that never reached the employee. Group policy benefit and claim payments follow, with 4,974 records worth $2,437,540 — often an insurance reimbursement issued after the policyholder had moved or changed banks.

Accounts payable (4,680 records, $4,617,541), miscellaneous outstanding checks (4,225 records, $3,283,631), and royalties (3,386 records, $3,768,440) round out the largest categories. The royalties figure is notable given the concentration of entertainment industry reporters in this list; unclaimed royalty payments can sit on the books for years before they are escheated to the State.

How do I check whether any of this is mine?

The property records above are aggregated by city; they do not tell you whether a specific record belongs to you. The only way to know is to search by name. Our free property search checks names against the State’s records, including the categories and reporters described above, and tells you what turns up.

If you have lived at more than one address, search under maiden names, former married names, and any business names you have operated under. Reported property is filed under whatever name the holder had on record at the time, which is sometimes years out of date.

What does it cost to have someone else claim it for me?

You are never required to use a recovery firm to claim property held by the State. Some readers prefer to file the claim themselves; others prefer to have someone handle the paperwork, documentation and follow-up. If you engage us, our fee is 10 per cent of what is recovered, and nothing is owed unless the State approves the claim and pays it.

That 10 per cent figure is not just our policy; it is a statutory ceiling. California law caps recovery fees at 10 per cent of the property recovered, but only for property reported under Code of Civil Procedure §1530 — the ordinary bank, insurance and payroll accounts described above. Estates that pass through county probate are governed by the Probate Code instead, and the Controller has stated there is no fee restriction on investigators handling those cases. See our page on what the law says about finder fees for the detail.

What if the property belongs to someone who has died?

If you are searching on behalf of a deceased relative, or you are an executor or heir, the process is different from an individual claim. Estates that have gone through California probate appear in a separate State file, refreshed twice a year, listing the decedent, the heirs of record, the county and the case number. We index that file separately; see probate estates and the second State file for how it works. Questions about who is legally entitled to inherit are questions for an attorney — we do not advise on that.

Is there a deadline to claim this money?

No. California places no deadline on claiming unclaimed property; the State holds it until the owner or their heirs come forward, with one exception — estates that have been permanently escheated to the State, where title has already passed and no claim will be paid. Short of that, a record from a decade ago is claimable today with the same standing as one reported last month. There is no reason to rush a decision, and no reason to assume the money has expired.

Questions People Ask

Figures on this page are from our copy of the State Controller’s published file as it stood on 26 September 2026. The State republishes the file weekly, so current totals will differ. Search is always against the latest copy.