ETF Is Looking for People With Abandoned WRS Accounts

There are individuals age 70 and older with abandoned Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) accounts. Each year the Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF) identifies new abandoned accounts and publishes their names in the state newspaper and the "Trust Fund News" to try to find these individuals and alert them, or their heirs that this money is available.

Most accounts are small, but over the years a few have been substantial. The WRS members or their heirs have ten years after publication to apply for the benefit. The list below shows the deadline for a benefit application from the members or their heirs. If you know the whereabouts of anyone on this list, please ask them or their heirs to write to ETF at P.O. Box 7931, Madison, WI 53707-7931. Inquiries should include the member's complete name (published name and current name), date of birth and Social Security number. ETF will provide a benefit application to the rightful claimant.

The list of members with abandoned accounts follows; please Contact Us if you think you may be on this list, or are the heir of an individual on this list who is deceased.

The State Treasurer's Office also has an unclaimed property site that lists owners of other unclaimed financial assets who cannot be located.