Hundreds of municipal governments in South Carolina have outstanding checks from various state agencies, and the SC Office of the State Treasurer has a way for officials to track down the source of those payments.
The Outstanding Check Search can be found online. While the state classifies all checks that remain uncashed within 90 days as outstanding, the search draws only from those checks that are more than two years old.
Users can search by a payee name, which can be a city or town government, and have the option of further narrowing the search by the state agency that issued the check. The search provides the dollar amount of the check, the issuing agency, the payee name and a check number.
Those payees who have identified an outstanding check would then need to contact the state agency to reissue a particular check.