“I lost money,” she ... 2023 drawing. As unclaimed prizes, any recovered proceeds would be split among state teaching hospitals, hospitals providing care along the Texas-Mexico border ...

when Texas stepped in to replace lost federal and local dollars. The base amount of money districts receive for every child has also stagnated since 2019. That number remains at $6,160.

Often, the unclaimed money ends up being sent to a state office. Surprisingly, 1 in 7 Americans has unclaimed property, according to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators ...

However, the deadline to claim the money is fast approaching ... of almost $94.8 million in unclaimed refunds. The median potential refund is $810 for those in Texas who have not claimed theirs.