The UNF Treasurer's Office is responsible for identifying, reporting, and remitting unclaimed property to the State of Florida Bureau of Unclaimed Property annually. This process requires coordination with several departments within the Controller's Office.

Checks are issued for various disbursement types (student refunds, financial aid, vendor remittances, payroll, and travel reimbursement). These checks become stale dated after 180 days; however, the bank may honor checks which have exceeded this timeframe.

Aging reports identifying outstanding checks (over 180 days) are forwarded from the Treasurer's Office to the appropriate manager in the Controller's Office each month. The managers are responsible for contacting the payees to determine status of the outstanding checks.

Effective July1, 2008 and every month thereafter, "stop payments" will be issued on all outstanding checks 180 days or more and the represented funds will be transferred to the unclaimed property account. If warranted, managers will cancel and reissue checks. Reissues will be paid directly out of the unclaimed property account.

During the month of January, final notification letters are mailed from the Treasurer's Office to payees of outstanding checks approaching 365 days. On April 30th the Unclaimed Property Report is mailed to the State which includes the University's payment for the required amount.

For questions please contact the Treasurer's Office at ext. 2932.