They don’t take it. They hold it for your. You have to claim it. I found over $700 from an old stock. Check the comptrollers office in your state.
I think there's a centralized search website - missingmoney.com, IIRC.
What gives them the right to “hold” it for you?
Did they deposit that money?
Did they work to make that money to deposit it?
What right have they to claim that since you put that money into that account, that they can simply reach in and “hold” it?
Since they are “holding” that money, do they pay interest on it since they are likely to be earning interest on it themselves. Dont tell me they reach in and take those funds to simply “hold” it at no advantage to themselves either.
I do not care if that money was put in there ten thousand years ago, that isnt their money and they have no claim to it at all.