BOSTON — Transportation Security Administration workers collected more than $13,000 in spare change left behind by travelers at Boston’s Logan International Airport last year.
The Boston Globe reports that the TSA said in a report this week that the change is often abandoned in those plastic buckets used by passengers for personal belongings before stepping through metal detectors at security checkpoints.
TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein says unclaimed money is documented and turned in to the financial office.
In 2005, Congress gave the TSA the authority keep the unclaimed change and spend it on security improvements.
Nationally, the TSA collected more than $675,000 in loose change in the 2014 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was number one last year, with $42,550.
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