Just like pulling a lucky Community Chest card, millions in lost money is sitting unclaimed - and it could be yours, if you check.
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According to the state government, a windfall of more than $1.2 million is waiting to be claimed by Ballarat residents in long-lost wages, rental bonds and share dividends.
The latest data shows the State Revenue Office has more than a million unclaimed entitlements across Victoria - in Ballarat, $1.28 million is ready to be collected, which includes $20,000 for a Wendouree woman and $15,500 for another resident.
A man in Lake Wendouree has 35 separate entitlements in his name, for a total of about $12,765.
Ballarat currently has 11,296 individual entitlements registered, including Sebastopol ($97,155), Alfredton ($45,1287), Ballarat North ($37,504) and Lake Wendouree ($29,922).
The unclaimed money is made up of share dividends, salaries and wages, rents and bonds, debentures and interest, and proceeds from sales that for whatever reason is not collected. After 12 months, the money is held by the SRO.
Last financial year, the SRO reunited $16.6 million with its rightful owners through more than 18,000 entitlements - that's 50 claims processed a day.
In regional Victoria, Geelong has the most unclaimed money with $2.74 million (25,137 entitlements), followed by Ballarat and Bendigo with $1.1 million (11,069 entitlements).
Treasurer Tim Pallas said in a statement people can search online to see if they have a claim - "you will know within seconds if you're sitting on an unexpected windfall", he said.
There is no time limit to claiming held money, which can be searched via sro.vic.gov.au/unclaimedmoney.