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State Treasurer Clint Zweifel talks about unclaimed property
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St. Louis (KSDK) -- Unclaimed property made hundreds of NewsChannel 5 viewers richer after they made their claims. Last night, NewsChannel 5 held a phone bank with State Treasurer Clint Zweifel about unclaimed property and helped callers claim the property being held by the state of Missouri. The biggest single claim was $28,000. If you are wondering whether you may have unclaimed property, visit the Show Me Money website and enter your last name into the Unclaimed Property Database.
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State Treasurer Clint Zweifel unveiled Wednesday his Unclaimed Property Search Kiosk at the O’Fallon Department of Revenue License Office at 2421 Highway K. Kiosks are also in Columbia, MO and Joplin. The kiosk, developed by Treasurer Zweifel, is a one-stop shop by allowing people to search for Unclaimed Property and begin the claims process while completing their business at the license office.
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State Treasurer Clint Zweifel joined Dr. Richard Reed at the ceremony. Reed's business applied for and received funding through the Linked Deposit Program, a low-interest loan program facilitated through Zweifel's office.
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Dr. Richard Reed, a Joplin dentist, lost his office and equipment in the May 22 tornado. On Monday, his 34-year-old practice was up and running in a new office space. But a big boost for Reed came via a program created long before the EF-5 tornado hit Joplin. He was able to buy and renovate his new office building on 20th Street with a $650,000 Missouri Linked Deposit Program loan. He worked with a local bank and the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office to receive the low-interest loan.
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Small business owners, entrepreneurs and farmers are getting a boost from Missouri’s low-interest loan program. Loan volume is up more than 60 percent from four years ago, meaning more Missourians are taking advantage of the state’s linked-deposit program. State Treasurer Clint Zweifel says the program has put more than a billion dollars back into the state’s economy.
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State Treasurer Clint Zweifel said today he has approved more than $1 billion in low-interest Missouri Linked Deposit Program loans since January 2009, an increase of 61 percent over the four-year period of January 2005 to December 2008, when $634.5 million in loans were approved.
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Treasurer Zweifel kicked off this financial literacy event today at the Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School in St. Louis with help from Bradford and Visa officials. Bradford shared his personal experiences on the importance of money management with students. Bradford and Zweifel then rolled up their sleeves and led student teams in a hard-fought, high energy game of Financial Football with the students of Cardinal Ritter College Prep.
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Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel has announced an unusual contest to boost the profile of the state’s college-savings plan, known as MOST: an online drawing for two Kindles.
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The Missouri State Treasurers office says four more Missouri farm families have been able to start up their own farms with Missouri Linked Deposit Program loans. Treasurer Clint Zweifel says those farming operations are for raising cattle and growing row crops in central and northwest Missouri. Loan amounts range from $19,000 to $217,000. One family used a USDA Farm Service Agency loan guarantee in combination with the low-interest loan.
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