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Mississippi Unclaimed Property Division (State Treasury)

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Mississippi Unclaimed Property Division (State Treasury)

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

Agency

Mississippi’s administrator is the Unclaimed Property Division of the State Treasury of Mississippi (Office of the State Treasurer). It takes custody of dormant intangible property — including unclaimed surplus reported from foreclosure and tax-sale distributions — for owners and heirs.

Official claim portal

Searching is free; the citizen page hosts a name-search box and an online “Claim” workflow, with an alternative notarized paper claim form mailed to: Office of the State Treasurer, Unclaimed Property Division, P.O. Box 138, Jackson, MS 39205. Contact: (601) 359-3534, unclaimed@treasury.ms.gov.

How surplus escheats here

Unclaimed foreclosure/tax-sale surplus in mississippi not claimed from the disbursing party is reported and remitted to the State Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Division under the custodial model in escheat-and-unclaimed-property. Mississippi’s Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act sets a general five-year dormancy for most items (the Treasury notes “five years for all checks, 15 years for traveler’s checks, and seven years for money orders”). (Source: State Treasury of Mississippi, https://treasury.ms.gov/for-citizens/unclaimed-property/, retrieved 2026-06-02; statutory cite: Miss. Code §§ 89-12-1 et seq. — needs_verification for the exact subsection.)

The taking is custodial; binding pre-escheat deadlines sit upstream at the chancery clerk/court and appear on the mississippi page (Module 3).

Claiming

Search by last name on the Treasury site, file the matched claim online, or print, notarize, and mail the paper Unclaimed Property Claim Form. Submit proof of identity and ownership; heirs claim through estate documentation. No fee.

▸ For Former Owners. Search Treasury.MS.gov by your last name — surplus from a Mississippi foreclosure or tax sale may be held by the state, free to claim and not time-barred.

▸ For Investors / Operators. Unclaimed surplus escheats to the state Treasury fund (custodial), not a county forfeiture pool — a later owner claim does not cloud acquired title or revive redemption. Confirm the chancery clerk surplus clock on the mississippi page.

Sources

Disclaimer. Legal information, not legal advice. Verify the agency URL and Miss. Code Title 89 Ch. 12 dormancy provisions against the current official site before acting. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship.

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