Let's fix this, New York.
The fact that you don't know is exactly what Comptroller Tom DiNapoli wants because if you knew, you would wonder what he's been doing the last 18 years.
The Comptroller is the Chief Auditor, Chief Investor, and Chief Getting-Your-Money-Back-er for the entire State. That means as auditor he can get to the bottom of why your health care, housing and utility costs keep going up; it means that as investor he is responsible for $270 billion of the taxpayer-funded public pension funds; it means he has the ability to get your money back—all $20 billion he's been sitting on in the Unclaimed Fund he oversees.
As the sole trustee of the third-largest public pension fund in the United States, for nearly 20 years, Comptroller DiNapoli has handed over $11 billion in fees—New Yorkers’ tax dollars—to Wall Street bankers who then underperformed their benchmark by 35%. Instead of holding them accountable, Comptroller DiNapoli increased their fees by 530%. Drew will stop lining Wall Street’s pockets and invest smarter to give billions back to working New Yorkers while earning a higher rate of return for pensioners in the process.
The Comptroller controls a $270 billion fund—and hardly any of it is invested in solving New York’s affordable housing crisis. Drew will launch the largest affordable housing fund in the United States—$10 billion—to build and preserve homes New Yorkers can actually afford right here where they live and work.
Right now, the Comptroller is holding $20 billion of New Yorkers’ money in the NYS Unclaimed Fund—money that’s owed to New Yorkers for things like insurance claims, expired gift certificates, uncashed checks, and closed bank accounts. Drew’s plan is simple: give it back to you. All $20 billion. It’s not the Comptroller’s money, it’s New Yorkers’. We should act like it.
When Drew is State Comptroller, there won’t be any process delays to get your money. Because there won’t be any process. He's just going to automatically send you a check for the amount owed to you. In the meantime, we launched GetYourMoneyBackNY.com to help you get what's yours.