ATTENTION cash-strapped Bathurst residents: there's $429,663 out there that belongs to you.
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You just have to claim it.
The cash is part of the "forgotten money" account held by Revenue NSW and includes share dividends, trust accounts, refunds, commissions, deceased estates and money from a range of other sources.
The 2795 postcode is ranked 10th (Orange is second, Dubbo is ninth and Wollongong is first) on the list of regional suburbs with the most unclaimed money.
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A Revenue NSW spokesperson said the money usually came from simple transactions that were overlooked or forgotten - transactions such as an electricity bill inadvertently paid twice.
"Or you may have paid for a TAFE course and then been unable to do it, for some reason TAFE can't find you to refund it, so they give it to the government," the spokesperson said.
Bathurst's figure of $429,663 represents 1205 transactions and is part of a statewide pool of $467 million.
NSW Minister for Finance and Small Business Damien Tudehope encouraged people to get online to see if they had money in the account.
"The largest single amount held on the unclaimed money register is more than $1 million from a deceased estate in Cabramatta, while there are 10 amounts of more than $500,000 waiting to be collected by rightful owners," he said.
He said there were also more than 255,000 unpresented cheques worth $108 million waiting to make their way into people's accounts.
The unclaimed money register can be found at revenue.nsw.gov.au.