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Travelers left behind nearly $12K at Sea-Tac Airport

Apr 8, 2015, 6:37 AM | Updated: 6:43 am

Travelers through Sea-Tac Airport left behind $11,977.47 last fiscal year, according to the TSA. (A...

Travelers through Sea-Tac Airport left behind $11,977.47 last fiscal year, according to the TSA. (AP)

(AP)

Travelers through Sea-Tac Airport are just giving their money away to the Transportation Security Administration.

Travelers through Sea-Tac left behind $11,977.47 last fiscal year (from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30), according to the TSA. Sea-Tac ranked 15th on the TSA’s list of 20 airports it’s tracking.

Travelers at JFK Airport left $42,550. In total, $674,841 went unclaimed across the U.S. That’s up from $383,414 in 2008.

Unclaimed items, mostly loose change, is turned over to the TSA financial office. Congress gave TSA the authority to use the money for security operations in 2005.

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