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Travelers left behind more than $926,000 in unclaimed money at airport security checkpoints nationwide during the 2019 fiscal year, including nearly $10,000 at San Diego International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration announced Friday. The TSA, which released figures regarding cash collected at airports during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2019, said in most cases "this money consists of coins that passengers remove from their pockets while undergoing security screening." Of the total amount, nearly $19,000 was foreign currency. The airports that accumulated the top five amounts of unclaimed money were: 1.John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York...

Did you know that an estimated $41.7 billion - billion - is currently held in government unclaimed-property programs? Some of that unclaimed money could be yours.-advertisement- Sound like a scam? It isn't, although some scam companies and individual scammers will try to charge you fees to recover it. Warning: If someone asks for a fee to search for unclaimed money, don't pay. It's a free search. Before I tell you how to find your unclaimed money, though, here's how it gets unclaimed in the first place.