PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Ever find a $20 bill in your pocket you forgot you put there? Every year, the Arizona Department of Revenue, or ADOR, returns millions of dollars to families of people who either moved, died, or simply forgot about those funds. You could have some money waiting for you.

Unclaimed checks, old accounts, safety deposit boxes that have been untouched for years — whatever the state can’t reconnect with the rightful owners, it auctions off. Arizona’s Family got a rare tour of the secured vault in which it’s all stored.

Two stories below ground at the Department of Revenue building in downtown Phoenix lies a reinforced vault guarding some of the state’s most treasured valuables. The vault is protected by a series of complicated locks and a 15-inch steel door.

While it

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