Good Day!
Our staff members are back in the office after a summer and autumn of fairs, festivals, trade shows, and outreach seminars. They traversed the state from Scottsbluff and Sidney on the west to Omaha on the east; from South Sioux City in the northeast to McCook in the southwest. In between they visited North Platte, Norfolk, and Nebraska City.
Their messages were specific to three unique programs in the Treasurer’s Office—college savings, unclaimed property, and child support—yet, overall their message was the same: the Nebraska State Treasurer’s Office exists to serve all the people of Nebraska and to make its services, programs, and processes available and easily accessible to all.
Out staff fulfills that mission by conducting seminars across the state for employers who remit child support on behalf of their employees. Sixteen one-hour seminars were conducted by Tom Hinds, outreach director for the Nebraska Child Support Payment Center, one of the divisions of the Treasurer’s Office.
And our College Savings Program director Rachel Biar fulfilled that mission as well as she traveled to eight events, including our second annual NESTFests for families. At NESTFest events in Grand Island and Norfolk, she met and visited with many families who wanted to know more about how to save for their children’s college educations.
Our Treasury Management Division fulfills our outreach mission right here at home in the State Capitol. By phone, email, meetings, and computer software programs, our Treasury Management specialists provide services and support every day to state agencies, county treasurers and clerks, big and small banks, volunteer firefighters and rescue workers, private vendors, and hard-working Nebraskans.
Our staff has a few more outreach events scheduled for 2012, so we look forward to seeing you on the road in Nebraska. Read more about other events in the Treasurer’s Office below.
Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg is reminding Nebraska businesses and organizations that the deadline for submitting their unclaimed property reports and remitting unclaimed property to the state is November 1, according to state law. A reporting form is available on the Treasurer’s website at www.treasurer.org.
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Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg urged Nebraska families to begin saving for their children’s education through the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust, a state-sponsored 529 college savings program.
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Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg urged northeast Nebraska families to begin saving for their children’s education through the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust, a state-sponsored 529 college savings program.
In remarks prepared for delivery at NESTFest in Norfolk, Treasurer Stenberg said the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust, known as NEST, offers four unique plans that make saving for college simple and affordable for Nebraskans as well as families across the United States. State-sponsored 529 plans take their name from Section 529 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Read moreThe Nebraska Educational Savings Trust (NEST) and First National Bank of Omaha announced today the second annual “Draw Your Dreams” scholarship contest. The contest runs from October 1 to October 31, 2012. Twelve first-place winners will each receive a $3,500 scholarship and 12 runners-up will each receive a $750 scholarship. All scholarship funds will be invested in a NEST Direct College Savings Plan account.
Read moreThe Nebraska State Treasurer’s online eBay auction of coins, jewelry and other items from abandoned safe deposit boxes has concluded, State Treasurer Don Stenberg said today.
“Our successful eBay auction, which ran from Sept. 17 to Sept. 24, brought in $14,913, according to preliminary figures. Of the total 117 lots in the auction, 102 of them sold, many for much higher amounts than appraised,” Treasurer Stenberg said. Money raised from the sale of each item in the auction will be held for the original owner or heir in perpetuity, he noted.
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Gov. Dave Heineman today proclaimed September to be College Savings Month in Nebraska, joining other states to promote the value of saving early for college and to encourage families to take advantage of tax benefits through state-sponsored 529 college savings plans.
The College Savings Month proclamation was issued in a ceremony in the Warner Chamber of the State Capitol. Attending the ceremony were State Treasurer Don Stenberg, Trustee of the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust, and David Cota, senior managing director of First National Bank of Omaha, the program manager for Nebraska’s college savings program.
More than 53,000 families in Nebraska and more than 190,000 nationwide are saving for their children’s higher education through the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust (NEST). State-sponsored 529 savings plans take their name from Section 529 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
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Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg announced today that he is hosting an online eBay auction of contents from abandoned safe deposit boxes that were turned over to the Treasurer’s Office seven or more years ago.
The auction will begin at 10 a.m. CDT Monday, Sept. 17, and will run for one week, ending at 10 a.m. CDT Monday, Sept. 24. Bidding is open to any registered user of eBay. Registering as an eBay user is a free service.
The auction site can be accessed at:
http://myworld.ebay.com/Nebraska.UnclaimedProperty
Bidders also can access the auction site from the home page of the Treasurer’s website at www.treasurer.org.
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First National Bank of Omaha and Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg announced today the winners of the second annual “NEST on the Farm” scholarship contest. Three first-place winners each received a $3,500 contribution to a NEST Direct College Savings Plan while three runners-up each received a $1,000 contribution to a NEST Direct College Savings Plan. State Treasurer Don Stenberg will present the winners and runners-up with their scholarships September 12 at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, NE.
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Claims totaling more than $17,000 were processed by the Unclaimed Property Division of the State Treasurer’s Office during the Nebraska State Fair, which ended Monday in Grand Island, State Treasurer Don Stenberg said today.
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Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale stopped by the State Treasurer’s Office today to pick up a check for $50 that the State Treasurer received from First Westroads Bank of Omaha as unclaimed property.
The property, a cashier’s check written on First Westroads Bank in 2002, was turned over to the state in 2010.
Read moreFirst National Bank of Omaha and State Treasurer Don Stenberg today announced the winners of the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust (NEST) “Focus on a Career” essay contest. Ten students from across the state each received a $1,000 contribution deposited into a NEST College Savings Plan account.
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