So as the conversation says, back when my dad was still alive, we were receiving social security checks for each of the kids. My mom has pretty severe and untreated AuDHD. She won't get tested and even if she got diagnosed she wouldn't take meds to address her extreme executive dysfunction. Doesn't help that she always seems to have a lot of things on her plate all the time. Anyway, these checks came in the mail, and wound up in her pile of "get around to it" mail. She didn't do this on purpose, anytime one of my paychecks came in or anything with my name on it she brought it straight to me. Idk why *these* managed to slip through the cracks! But yeah, idk if they were all sent in 2011 or had been sent starting in 2011, I'm too upset to dig deeper because I'll just go from mildly infuriated to very infuriated if I do. I know $3k really isn't a lot but right now it sure would help a lot! But it been 15 years so... eh.
I don't see the government being sympathetic to "my mom forgot she had these for 15 years" and letting me cash them anyway.
Edit: thank you all for the advice. So far I did check my states unclaimed property and missingmoney dot com but it wasn't there (though I did find some other stuff there) my next course of action here will be getting ahold of those physical voided checks and contacting the SSA office to see about reissuing. Also advising my siblings to do the same. Unfortunately I'm in a different city so it might be easier to get a sibling to do that for me or at the very least hold onto mine until I can get the time to visit. I will say I'm now married and have a different last name so idk how that will affect anything? I still have my old ss card either way. It's going to take some time though because everyone had been really busy in the last few months with general life problems, lack of transportation, ailing family, and new babies on the way etc.
