A few thousand euros may be waiting for you in an account, here's how to recover them

Your wealthy great-great-uncle has passed away, leaving behind a well-stocked life insurance policy of which you are the beneficiary.

But unfortunately you are not aware.

Your generous grandparents had opened a savings account in your name, where interest had accumulated since your childhood, but you had completely forgotten about it.

When you changed employers a few years ago, you left behind your employee savings… but what happened to the funds?

And if there was still time to recover the money that sleeps on these old accounts?

The sums are far from negligible.

The French who rediscover themselves holders of inactive bank accounts recover on average nearly 2600 euros, according to the Caisse des dépôts.

Since 2016, and the entry into force of the Eckert law, the Institution has been the ultimate guardian of the assets deposited in the accounts and passbooks whose owners have ceased to appear for 10 years.

In total, 6.7 billion euros are still stored there...

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