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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 36, September 6, 2020, Article 28
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TSA REPORTS FINDING $1M IN MISPLACED CASH

In the find-a-penny-take-a-penny department, the TSA reports finding nearly a million dollars in left-behind passenger cash during the 2019 fiscal year. Found via the News & Notes newsletter by the Society of Paper Money Collectors (Volume VI, Number 10, August 25, 2020). -Editor

TSA luggage scanner The Transportation Security Administration collected nearly $1 million in unclaimed money passengers left behind after going through security checkpoints.

The agency added up $926,030.44 in loose change and paper money from passengers during the 2019 fiscal year, $18,899.09 of which came from foreign currency.

According to a press release shared with Fox News, the top five airports for forgotten change were John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, which found $98,110; San Francisco International Airport had $52,668.70; Miami International Airport with $47,694.03; Nevada’s McCarran International Airport had $44,401.76; and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with $40,218.19.

“It is always TSA’s goal to reunite travelers with items they have left behind at checkpoints. If someone returns to the checkpoint within a short timeframe to claim an item that they left behind, it is easily returned to them,” the TSA wrote.

To read the complete article, see:
TSA collects nearly $1M forgotten by passengers (https://www.foxnews.com/travel/tsa-collects-nearly-1m-forgotten-passengers)

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