ETF Is Looking for People With Abandoned WRS Accounts

The Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF) is looking for individuals age 70 and older who have “abandoned” Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) accounts. The list of WRS members known to have abandoned accounts is shown below. It also includes their (or that of their heirs) benefit application deadline.

Each year ETF updates and publishes -- in the newspaper, on our Internet site and in our newsletter -- a list of individuals identified as having abandoned accounts. The goal is to alert these individuals (or their heirs) that this money is available. The WRS members or their heirs have 10 years after publication to apply for the benefit.

If you know the whereabouts of any of these individuals, please ask them or their heirs to write to ETF. Inquiries should include the member’s complete name (published name and current name), date of birth and Social Security number. ETF will provide a benefit application to the rightful claimant. Write to ETF, P.O. Box 7931, Madison, Wis., 53707-7931.

The State Treasurer’s Office also has an unclaimed property site that lists owners of other unclaimed financial assets who cannot be located.