New York is sitting on a pot of $16.5 billion in unclaimed funds. So you might want to use our searchable database to check and see if any is yours. For years, the New York state Comptroller's Office has amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune, money that has gone unclaimed and needs to be returned to its rightful owners. But the burden is on individuals to determine whether their name appears in the unclaimed funds database and to undertake the steps required to recover that money. Returning that money isn't a simple task. The accounts have gone unclaimed in the first place because a company has lost contact with an account holder.