---
title: Unclaimed money claims processed by year, Victoria
resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/
publisher: State Revenue Office Victoria
licence: CC BY 4.0
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
version: 2026-04-20
rows: 21
fields: 2
source: https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-11/unclaimed-money-claims-2025.csv
source_sha256: 5344e781b06c21f29b91557854b84ea0d543467fc4e034b263587a74b07fd40b
language: en-AU
operator: National Digital
not_endorsed: true
---

# Unclaimed money claims processed by year, Victoria

The number of unclaimed money claims the State Revenue Office Victoria processed in each financial year since 2004-05.

Published by State Revenue Office Victoria under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. State Revenue Office Victoria has not endorsed this site.

Also called: SRO unclaimed money claims, Victorian unclaimed money statistics, Unclaimed moneys claims Victoria.

## Download

Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/`:

- csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.csv (374 B)
- xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.xlsx (8.3 KB)
- json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.json (3.2 KB)
- parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.parquet (5.3 KB)
- sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.sqlite (29 KB)
- duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB)
- ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.ndjson (2.9 KB)
- arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.arrow (4.7 KB)
- csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.csv.gz (222 B)

Pinned version 2026-04-20: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/data.<format>`. Dated versions never change.

## Query

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/aggregate.

- Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/rows?limit=5
- Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/aggregate?group=financial_year&metric=sum.claims_processed

Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`.

- `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
- `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
- `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
- `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you.
- `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated.
- `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent.
- `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions/<date>/` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/openapi.json

## Explore

Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded.

## Fields

| field | type | publisher's header | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `financial_year` | string | Year | The financial year as the publisher writes it, for example 2024-25. |
| `claims_processed` | integer | Unclaimed money claims processed |  |

Key: `financial_year`.

## Versions

- 2026-04-20: 21 rows, 2 fields, sha256 5344e781b06c. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/

Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/history.tar.zst

## Part of Unclaimed money held by the State Revenue Office Victoria

- [Unclaimed money paid out by year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/)

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## Attribution and citation

State Revenue Office, Victorian Government, Unclaimed money claims - from 2004/05, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/https-www-sro-vic-gov-au-sites-default-files-2025-11-unclaimed-money-claims-2025-csv, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Plain text: State Revenue Office, Victorian Government, Unclaimed money claims - from 2004/05, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/https-www-sro-vic-gov-au-sites-default-files-2025-11-unclaimed-money-claims-2025-csv, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/

Harvard: State Revenue Office Victoria (2026) Unclaimed money claims processed by year, Victoria, version 2026-04-20 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/

Markdown: Data: [Unclaimed money held by the State Revenue Office Victoria](https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/https-www-sro-vic-gov-au-sites-default-files-2025-11-unclaimed-money-claims-2025-csv), State Revenue Office Victoria, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/).

## Questions

### How do I download Unclaimed money claims processed by year as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

### Can I open Unclaimed money claims processed by year in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 21 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/v/2026-04-20/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

### What years does Unclaimed money claims processed by year cover?

The current version covers the years since 2004. Each release from SRO becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

### How often is Unclaimed money claims processed by year updated?

SRO releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

### Can I use Unclaimed money claims processed by year commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

### Is this the official source for Unclaimed money claims processed by year?

No. The publisher is State Revenue Office Victoria, and its page is https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/https-www-sro-vic-gov-au-sites-default-files-2025-11-unclaimed-money-claims-2025-csv. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

### What does each row hold?

One financial year from 2004-05 and the number of unclaimed money claims the State Revenue Office processed in it.

## What this site did to the data

Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`.

## Improve this dataset

This page is built from [register/vic-unclaimed-money-claims.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-unclaimed-money-claims.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.
