September 25, 2026 · 3 min read
If you have ever lived or done business in New Brunswick, there is an official search you can run for unclaimed money owed to you. It is called FundsFinder NB, it is run by the Financial and Consumer Services Commission (NB), and searching it is free at fundsfindernb.ca.
FundsFinder NB is a registry of unclaimed money owed to New Brunswickers. The Financial and Consumer Services Commission (NB), the provincial regulator, runs it and makes it searchable for free.
This is not a lawsuit and not a class action settlement. A settlement pays out once to people affected by a specific case; a registry like this one simply holds money that already belongs to someone and lists it so the owner can come forward.
The registry reports more than $42M in unclaimed funds. That figure comes from the registry itself and is not a live tally, and it says nothing about whether any of it is yours. The only way to find out is to search your own name.
The registry covers anyone who has lived or done business in New Brunswick. That is a wider group than people often assume. If you moved away years ago, or ran a business in the province and then closed or relocated it, you are still in the group that should search.
A change of address is one way money goes unclaimed. If mail was sent to a place you no longer live, you may never have known there was anything to claim in the first place.
It is worth searching more than one version of your name: a maiden name, a middle initial, a shortened first name, a business name you once operated under. A record filed under an older name will not come up when you search the name you use now.
Go to fundsfindernb.ca, the official site for FundsFinder NB, and search your name. Searching is free. You do not need to pay anyone to run this search for you, and you do not need a middleman to do it.
If a record comes up, the registry site sets out what to do next. FundsFinder NB explains its own claim process. Read those instructions on the site rather than relying on a summary anywhere else, including here.
A search result does not settle the question on its own. Whether a claim is approved is decided by the Financial and Consumer Services Commission (NB) under its own rules.
Unclaimed money registries attract finder services that offer to track down money for you and take a cut. Because FundsFinder NB is free to search and is run by the provincial regulator, you can do the search yourself at fundsfindernb.ca before deciding anything.
If someone contacts you claiming you have money waiting and asks for payment or personal details up front, treat that as a reason to slow down and check the official site directly. The registry is public and searchable by you.
A search that turns up nothing is a normal outcome, and it is not a sign you searched the wrong way. Because names change and records are added over time, it can be worth searching again at a later date.
If you do find something, the amount is whatever the record says it is. Treat the search as a check on something that may already be yours, not as a plan for money coming in.
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No. The Financial and Consumer Services Commission (NB) makes the New Brunswick unclaimed funds registry searchable for free at fundsfindernb.ca.
Yes. The registry covers anyone who has lived or done business in New Brunswick, which includes former residents and people who once ran a business there.
That is the amount of unclaimed funds the registry reports it holds. It is a total across all records, not an amount owed to any individual person, and it does not tell you whether there is a record in your name.
This post does not describe the claim process. FundsFinder NB sets out its own process on fundsfindernb.ca, and the Financial and Consumer Services Commission (NB) decides claims.
PayUpBro is not a law firm and never files a claim for you. This page describes publicly available settlement information; it is not legal advice. Whether you may be eligible in any settlement is decided by the court-appointed administrator, not by us.