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For all practical and legal purposes, forever. Depending on the State the employer and employee are in the money MUST be turned over to the UNCLAIMED FUNDS department of that state. The time limit to default to themis between 3 and 6 years (depending on the State). The government then tried (theoretically) to find the owner...this is the unclaimed funds info you see published in the paper every so often and consumer news reports about...finding people, some with suprisingly large amounts of money, that never claimed it...from things like bank accounts, pay, Accounts Payable, stock, etc. This "escheat funds" or unclaimed funds requirement is getting an increasingly larger amount of review and such by each government..not paying over the funds not only maintains the employers liability, but exposes them to sustantial penalties.

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