

Treasury check or tax refund check is one year. Treasury (Tax Refund): The limit for a U.S. The length of time before a cashier’s check is escheated depends upon the state, but usually is in the period between three to five years. There is no official expiration date for a cashier’s check (or official check), but if held too long it goes into a process called “escheating” which means it will be turned over to the state as unclaimed property. If you wrote a check that is now stale-dated, consider putting a stop payment order on this check. However, a bank or credit union may still honor it.


A personal check is good for six months (180 days) from when it was initially dated.
