Orange County clerk has thousands of  unclaimed checks

Orange County, Fla. — The county clerk is holding nearly five-thousand checks ranging from eleven cents to more than nine-thousand dollars that belong to residents of the county.

The money is for things like jury duty, refunds, restitution, vendor payments and bonds.  The checks listed are those that were mailed, but never cashed; perhaps because the intended recipient moved away and did not leave a forwarding address, or put the check away and forgot about it.

"Our customers deserve to receive the money that is rightly theirs," said Clerk of Courts Tiffany Moore Russell. "That is why every year we go above and beyond to spread the word about our unclaimed checks list."

If the money is not claimed by Sept. 1, the funds will be forfeited.

Anyone with questions about an unclaimed check can call the Clerk's office at 407-836-2200.

A list of unclaimed checks can be found at this link.