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Handling Uncashed Donation Checks and Escheatment
September 25, 2025
Q. If we have a check for a donation that was never cashed, do we have to escheat that?
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(Answered by IOFM's third-party unclaimed property expert)
This is one of those Rorschach tests, since states’ unclaimed property laws do not appear to specifically carve out these circumstances when noting what is and is not reportable. There is some level of popular opinion that an uncashed charitable contribution may not represent an obligation that was ever owed in the first place (nothing being given…
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