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Tennessee Unclaimed Property Division (Department of Treasury — ClaimItTN)

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Tennessee Unclaimed Property Division (Department of Treasury — ClaimItTN)

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

Agency

Tennessee’s administrator is the Unclaimed Property Division of the Tennessee Department of Treasury, public-facing as ClaimItTN. It takes custody of dormant intangible property — including unclaimed surplus reported from foreclosure and tax-sale distributions — for owners and heirs. Tennessee has adopted the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (RUUPA), replacing the former Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.

Official claim portal

Searching and claiming are free.

How surplus escheats here

Unclaimed foreclosure/tax-sale surplus in tennessee not claimed from the disbursing party is reported and remitted to the Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Division under the RUUPA custodial model in escheat-and-unclaimed-property. Most property carries a three-year dormancy, with wages at one year and safe-deposit-box contents at five years. (Source: Tennessee Department of Treasury / ClaimItTN, https://treasury.tn.gov/Unclaimed-Property/Claim-Unclaimed-Property/Find-Your-Missing-Money, retrieved 2026-06-02; statutory cite: Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 66-29-101 et seq. (Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, RUUPA-based) — needs_verification for the exact surplus-specific subsection.)

Tennessee 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 tennessee page (Module 3).

Claiming

Search by name at ClaimItTN.gov, file the matched claim, and submit proof of identity and ownership; heirs claim through estate documentation. In FY2025 the Division returned a record $125 million across 168,000+ claims. No fee.

▸ For Former Owners. Search ClaimItTN.gov by your name — Tennessee holds surplus and other unclaimed funds in a RUUPA custodial program with no claim deadline. Free to file.

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

Sources

Disclaimer. Legal information, not legal advice. Verify the agency URL and Tenn. Code Ann. Title 66 Ch. 29 dormancy provisions against the current official site before acting. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship.

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