A visit to the State Fair has paid dividends for 170 people who learned about $41,343 apparently owed to them by banks and other businesses, Maryland Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein said yesterday.
Goldstein said his office's computerized booth had fielded 2,729 inquiries about "unclaimed funds" during the fair's first two days. The comptroller's office is charged with keeping records about bank accounts, security deposits, insurance benefits and other payments that have gone uncollected for more than five years.
