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Lost & Found. Do you have money out there?

Published: April 24, 2025

There are several sites to check to see if you have money coming your way.

Uncashed Checks & Dormant Accounts. www.missingmoney.com

Provided by the National Association of State Treasures, the site catalogs assets such as uncashed checks from corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies, and more.

Savings Bonds. www.treasuryhunt.gov

Treasury Hunt is mainly intended to help you reclaim unredeemed or lost paper savings bonds and securities. Treasury Hunt can also be useful if you believe you are the beneficiary of Treasury securities that have not been paid out to you.

Pensions & 401(k)s. www.lostandfound.dol.gov

The U.S. Department of Labor is helping America’s workers and beneficiaries search for retirement plans that may still owe them benefits by establishing a public Retirement Savings Lost and Found Database through the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022.

This database serves as a centralized location to find lost or forgotten benefits and get information on how to obtain those funds. Learn about the tools and resources available for you to recover your hard-earned benefits.

Back Wages. www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow

Ready to Find Your Unpaid Wages? If you think we may have recovered unpaid wages for you, use the Workers Owed Wages (WOW) application to search and claim them.

Abandoned Bank Accounts.

For money left at an FDIC-insured bank : www.closedbanks.fdic.gov/funds.
Orphaned Credit Union Accounts: www.ncua.gov.

BREWERY CREDIT UNION MISSION STATEMENT

“Providing superior financial service while economically empowering our Members and Community.”

We do our best every day to complete this mission with the greatest member satisfaction and highest quality service.

MEMBER OWNED

We have members, not customers. Brewery Credit Union is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors elected by the member-owners.

NOT-FOR-PROFIT

As a not-for-profit organization, we focus on meeting members needs. This means we take our profits and use them to offer lower loan rates, higher savings rates, and fewer service fees.

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE

Every day at Brewery Credit Union, you invest in the community and the community invests in you. We lend deposits to members who and work in Southeastern Wisconsin neighborhoods, making sure your money stays here.

WE ARE A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION (CDFI)

Brewery Credit Union (BCU) offers the same commitment to our members since we chartered in 1934 as Brewery Workers Credit Union. The Brewery Workers Union Local 9 represented the many breweries and malting companies in Milwaukee. They formed the Credit Union for those in the brewing industry to have a safe place to borrow and save. The Brewery Workers Union Local 9 was also the original home of the Brewery Workers Credit Union. The Credit Union moved to Schlitz Brewery for a number of years until building our current home on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. In 1984, the Credit Union changed our name to Brewery Credit Union and currently offers membership to anyone who lives in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, or Washington counties, in addition to members of the Museum of Beer and Brewing. “Once a member always a member,” means should you ever relocate out of the area, your membership can continue.

Our members have access to the many products and services that Brewery Credit Union offers. We pride ourselves on offering new technology to make transacting business easier and faster than ever. The Credit Union’s mission of economically empowering our members and communities means that we will not judge a member for a blemished past. We want to help our members reach their financial goals and dreams. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve financial security and have access to safe, low-cost financial products and services. If you believe our mission will benefit you financially, or your membership will support members seeking to benefit from our mission, we would like you to become a member/owner of our great organization.