The government has announced a new taskforce involving banks to help reunite people with unclaimed savings held in dormant or inactive accounts. The initiative follows findings that more than 750,000 accounts are unclaimed, with an average balance of about £2,200 per account. Collectively, the unclaimed money amounts to roughly £1.6bn, according to the reports. The taskforce is intended to improve efforts to locate account holders and connect them to funds that may have been forgotten or left untouched for long periods. The plans involve banks participating in the work to identify potential matches and support a process for claims. No specific timeline or detailed operational steps are provided in the available summaries, but the purpose is clear: reduce the number of unclaimed accounts and provide a route for eligible individuals to recover balances. The reports present the taskforce as a coordinated response to the scale of unclaimed savings identified by government analysis.