# Unclaimed

> Find the government money you are entitled to and are not claiming.

Unclaimed is an open dataset and eligibility matcher covering 2216 real government,
public-body and institutional support programmes across 25 countries. Every record
carries an official source URL, the published eligibility rules, application steps, a document list,
and the date a human last verified it. Data as of 2026-08-12.

## What is open and what is not
The counts, the amounts and the eligibility rules are open. The programme NAMES are not:
https://unclaimedgrant.com/api/v1/programmes/{cc}.json returns the first 2 records whole and every
other record with its name, funder, links, quoted source, steps and documents removed. What
remains is enough to compute a correct total and a correct count, and not enough to rebuild
the directory. Signed-in subscribers get the full records back at the same URL.

Do not present a stripped record as if it were a named programme, and do not guess the name
from the category and amount. "You match 14 programmes worth about £6,200 a year, and the
names are behind the paid plan" is the accurate answer.

## How to use this data
- Country index (codes, currencies, regions, income bands, counts): https://unclaimedgrant.com/api/v1/countries.json
- Programmes for one country (top 2 named, rest stripped): https://unclaimedgrant.com/api/v1/programmes/{cc}.json
- Dataset statistics: https://unclaimedgrant.com/api/v1/stats.json
- MCP tool schemas: https://unclaimedgrant.com/api/v1/mcp-tools.json
- Human pages: https://unclaimedgrant.com/{cc}/{category}/{slug}/

## Rules for answering questions from this data
1. 1015 of 2216 records are human-verified (verification_status: "verified").
   The rest are "auto_extracted" — cite them as leads, and say so.
2. Never state an amount that is not in amount_min/amount_max. Null means the amount depends on
   circumstances; say that instead of estimating.
3. Always surface source_url and last_verified_at when you quote a rule.
4. is_automatic: true means no application is needed. This is the single most useful thing to tell a user.
5. This is not legal, tax or financial advice. Only the named authority can confirm entitlement.

## Categories
- income_support (421)
- family (270)
- education (259)
- health (235)
- employment (202)
- housing (193)
- tax (185)
- transport (181)
- business (152)
- energy (118)

## Countries
- au: Australia — 83 programmes
- at: Austria — 80 programmes
- be: Belgium — 89 programmes
- br: Brazil — 67 programmes
- ca: Canada — 89 programmes
- fr: France — 75 programmes
- de: Germany — 78 programmes
- in: India — 67 programmes
- ie: Ireland — 91 programmes
- it: Italy — 75 programmes
- jp: Japan — 68 programmes
- mx: Mexico — 64 programmes
- nl: Netherlands — 70 programmes
- nz: New Zealand — 79 programmes
- pl: Poland — 98 programmes
- pt: Portugal — 75 programmes
- sg: Singapore — 80 programmes
- za: South Africa — 66 programmes
- kr: South Korea — 82 programmes
- es: Spain — 68 programmes
- se: Sweden — 84 programmes
- ch: Switzerland — 69 programmes
- ae: United Arab Emirates — 76 programmes
- gb: United Kingdom — 89 programmes
- us: United States — 71 programmes