--- title: Unclaimed money paid out by year, Victoria resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/ 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-payments-2025.csv source_sha256: b37ed12df71166e91e8e88f682ab235a313c5893012b44dcd1a49be003d92de9 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Unclaimed money paid out by year, Victoria The amount of unclaimed money the State Revenue Office Victoria paid out to claimants in each financial year since 2004-05, in millions of dollars. 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 payments, Victorian unclaimed money paid to owners, Unclaimed moneys payments Victoria. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/v/2026-04-20/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.csv (345 B) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.xlsx (8.3 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.json (3.2 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.parquet (5.4 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.sqlite (29 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.ndjson (3.0 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.arrow (4.7 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.csv.gz (198 B) Pinned version 2026-04-20: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/v/2026-04-20/data.`. 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-payments/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/aggregate?group=financial_year&metric=sum.payments_million 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//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//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-payments/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/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. | | `payments_million` | number | Unclaimed money payments ($ million) | | Key: `financial_year`. ## Versions - 2026-04-20: 21 rows, 2 fields, sha256 b37ed12df711. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/v/2026-04-20/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/history.tar.zst ## Part of Unclaimed money held by the State Revenue Office Victoria - [Unclaimed money claims processed by year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-claims/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Notifiable invoices register, ACT Government](https://publicdata.au/d/act-notifiable-invoices/) (ACT) - [Money market interest rates, daily, Reserve Bank of Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/rba-money-market-daily/) (Cth) - [Interest rates paid on deposits, Reserve Bank of Australia and APRA](https://publicdata.au/d/rba-paid-deposit-rates/) (Cth) - [Consumer complaints received by the Office of Fair Trading, Queensland, latest period](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-consumer-complaints/) (Qld) - [Office of Fair Trading legal and enforcement actions, Queensland, latest period](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-fair-trading-enforcement-actions/) (Qld) - [Occupational licences held by type and region, Queensland, latest count](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-fair-trading-licences-by-region/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation State Revenue Office, Victorian Government, Unclaimed money payments (made by SRO) - 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-payments-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 payments (made by SRO) - 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-payments-2025-csv, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/v/2026-04-20/ Harvard: State Revenue Office Victoria (2026) Unclaimed money paid out 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-payments/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-payments-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-payments/v/2026-04-20/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Unclaimed money paid out by year as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/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 paid out by year in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-unclaimed-money-payments/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-payments/v/2026-04-20/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Unclaimed money paid out 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 paid out 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 paid out 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 paid out 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-payments-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 amount of unclaimed money the State Revenue Office paid to claimants in it, in millions of dollars as the publisher rounds 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-payments.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-unclaimed-money-payments.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.