Ensuring Transparency & Accountability

Ensuring Transparency & Accountability

As one of Arkansas’s seven constitutional officers, the Auditor of State plays a very important role in the day-to-day business of state government.

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The Auditor administers Arkansas’s Unclaimed Property program, the Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt. Through this free program, our office reconnects both current and former Arkansans with their unclaimed property at no charge to claimants.

About the Auditor

Dennis Milligan is a successful small business owner, starting a water-treatment company from scratch in 1985 and expanding it to 17 states before selling it in 2020. Milligan has spent the last 25 years in public service, volunteering at the county level and eventually serving as State Chairman of the Republican Party. He is known as a problem-solver…

Latest News

State Auditor Dennis Milligan Mails $700,000 Worth of Checks in First Round of Data Match 

Weekly checks begin today in new Data Match program  Sept. 2, 2025 – Auditor of State Dennis Milligan pushed ‘Start’ on his office’s new Data Match initiative today, generating more than $700,000 worth of checks that will be mailed to Arkansans this week. The new initiative will send checks to eli…

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 State Auditor Dennis Milligan Talks to Magnolia Rotary About New Data Match Initiative 

 Automatic mailing of unclaimed property checks to begin in September   August 8, 2025 (Magnolia, Ark.) –  Auditor of State Dennis Milligan spoke to the Magnolia Rotary Club Thursday about his office’s new Data Match program that allows him to mail unclaimed property check…

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State Auditor Dennis Milligan Kicks Off Data Match Initiative with Mobile Office in Batesville

More than $1.9 million in unclaimed property belonging to Independence County residents July 24, 2025 – Auditor of State Dennis Milligan kicked off his office’s new Data Match initiative today in Batesville with a mobile office in an attempt to reunite more than $1.9 million in unclaimed prop…

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