Issue Position: Put Money Back In Taxpayer Pockets

Issue Position

I will continue to push for taxpayer protections, including stopping fraud attempts in their tracks. In 2018, our treasury stopped over $5 million in fraud attempts on the Commonwealth before Christmas, an act that gained national media attention. But there are also other ways that the treasury regularly returns money back to our taxpayers.

​Long before my time in office, our treasury was tasked with overseeing Kentucky's unclaimed properties. Upon taking office in 2016, I eliminated a 90-day backlog in unclaimed property claims. I have also worked to modernize unclaimed property laws to make reporting and claiming unclaimed property easier for businesses and individuals.

During my time in office, Treasury has returned over $73 million to Kentuckians. . That is more than any other Treasurer in Kentucky history in a three-year period. Using the Kentucky treasury website -- treasury.ky.gov -- anyone can search to find out whether they or their loved ones may have property waiting to be claimed.

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