Originally Posted by rowan

I know there's an obvious answer, but I think it's time for a sponsor (or third party biller) to step up and say that they will actively hunt for checks which have not been cashed within a reasonable period of time.

I found a couple of checks from April that haven't been cashed, worth a total of about $700. If I hadn't come across them then that value would have remained a figure written on some paper.

When enquiring about the process for reissuing checks one of the replies from a popular third party biller completely ignored my question about why they didn't actively monitor for unclaimed funds.