PENDING MEASURE MIGHT HELP OWNERS GET UNCLAIMED MONEY, VALUABLES MORE QUICKLY

Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity says pending legislation might help get unclaimed money returned more quickly. She said Wednesday that a proposed change would allow the state treasury to automatically write a check to return unclaimed money up to five-thousand-dollars to its rightful owner. That would do away with a requirement that makes an owner file a formal claim.  The change would apply only to monetary assets and not physical property. Republican Senator John DiSanto of Dauphin County is the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 24.