{"id":41258,"date":"2023-11-28T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41258"},"modified":"2023-11-28T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:13:14","slug":"apple-cash-escheat-heads-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/28\/apple-cash-escheat-heads-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Cash Escheat Heads-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talk.tidbits.com\/t\/apple-cash-escheat-heads-up\/25599\">Dana E. Stevens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/talk.tidbits.com\/t\/apple-cash-escheat-heads-up\/25599\"><p>I had a small balance in Apple Cash and had not made any transactions in a bit over 3 years. I received a text message notice of a &ldquo;Balance Adjustment&rdquo; resulting in a $0 balance in Apple Cash. Called Apple Support. They said the balance had been escheated to the state I live in. Approximately 6 weeks later the balance showed up on the state website for unclaimed property. [&#8230;] I see I&rsquo;m <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/255194987?login=true\">not the only one<\/a> to have this experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t realize that financial-but-non-bank accounts like Apple Cash could be counted as abandoned\/unclaimed simply because you haven&rsquo;t used them in a while. You&rsquo;d think Apple could send a notification <em>before<\/em> removing the funds.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitsaboutmoney.com\/archive\/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-gift-cards\/\">More than you want to know about gift cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/23\/adobe-account-expiration\/\">Adobe Account Expiration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/19\/google-updates-inactive-account-policy\/\">Google Updates Inactive Account Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana E. Stevens: I had a small balance in Apple Cash and had not made any transactions in a bit over 3 years. I received a text message notice of a &ldquo;Balance Adjustment&rdquo; resulting in a $0 balance in Apple Cash. Called Apple Support. They said the balance had been escheated to the state I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-28T19:13:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"f424c4db-c5f6-4bd0-8da2-06577794cfd9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-28T19:13:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9CTE28X2S9CNogZXd5TP2Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995,1195,31,2321],"class_list":["post-41258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-pay","tag-financial","tag-ios","tag-ios-17"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41259,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258\/revisions\/41259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}