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Kentucky Unclaimed Property Division (Office of the State Treasurer)

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Kentucky Unclaimed Property Division (Office of the State Treasurer)

Agency directory page. Legal information, not legal advice. Last verified: 2026-06-02.

Agency

Kentucky’s administrator is the Unclaimed Property Division of the Office of the Kentucky State Treasurer. It takes custody of dormant intangible property — including unclaimed surplus reported from foreclosure and tax-sale distributions — for owners and heirs (the Treasury reports safeguarding roughly $800 million). Kentucky enacted its version of the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (RUUPA) via HB 394 (2018), codified at KRS Chapter 393A.

Official claim portal

Searching and claiming are free. Contact: unclaimed.property@ky.gov.

How surplus escheats here

Unclaimed foreclosure/tax-sale surplus in kentucky not claimed from the disbursing party is reported and remitted to the State Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Division under the RUUPA custodial model in escheat-and-unclaimed-property. Most property carries a three-year dormancy, with payroll/wages at one year. (Source: Office of the Kentucky State Treasurer, https://treasury.ky.gov/, retrieved 2026-06-02; statutory cite: KRS Chapter 393A (Kentucky RUUPA, HB 394 of 2018) — needs_verification for the exact surplus-specific subsection.)

Kentucky is listed among early RUUPA-2016 enactors in escheat-and-unclaimed-property; the custodial taking means the owner’s reclaim right survives the dormancy clock, while binding pre-escheat deadlines sit upstream and appear on the kentucky page (Module 3).

Claiming

Search by name on the Treasury site or MissingMoney.com, file the matched claim, and submit proof of identity and ownership; heirs claim through estate documentation. No fee.

▸ For Former Owners. Search the Kentucky Treasury site (or MissingMoney.com for Kentucky) by your name — surplus from a Kentucky foreclosure or tax sale may be held in a RUUPA custodial program with no claim deadline. Free to file.

▸ For Investors / Operators. Kentucky escheats unclaimed surplus to the state Treasurer fund (RUUPA custodial, KRS Ch. 393A), not a county forfeiture pool — a later owner claim does not cloud acquired title or revive redemption. Confirm the upstream surplus clock on the kentucky page.

Sources

  • {agency, https://treasury.ky.gov/, retrieved 2026-06-02} — Office of the Kentucky State Treasurer Unclaimed Property Division; KRS Ch. 393A (RUUPA via HB 394, 2018); ~3-yr general / 1-yr payroll dormancy; ~$800M held.
  • {portal, https://www.missingmoney.com/, retrieved 2026-06-02} — NAUPA-endorsed multistate database integrated with Kentucky Treasury data.
  • {internal, concepts/escheat-and-unclaimed-property.md, read 2026-06-02} — Kentucky early RUUPA-2016 enactor; custodial-taking framework.

Disclaimer. Legal information, not legal advice. Verify the agency URL and KRS Ch. 393A dormancy provisions against the current official site before acting. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship.

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