<prompt> Human: Hello reddit world, this is my first post so be easy on me haha. Alright so heres the deal. My father died when I was six months old, he was a specialist in the Army, and passed away in a boating accident. I was told my entire life that my sister age 23 and I age 20 both had trust funds set up for us by my grandfather former cop, father of my father, and my grandmother my fathers mother. My grandma is the Trustee, we were told that we could have what was in it when we reached an age to maturely handle that amount of money. My mother always seemed to think that there would be more in it until my older sister spoke with my grandmother who apparently told her that there was only 2000 in it. I find this hard to swallow considering it was over the course of 20 years, and it collects interest every 6 months, I feel like the numbers dont add up. I expected there to be at least 20,000 in it by now. I feel gypped, that the only thing left for my sister and I to help us through life is 2000 dollars, that would mean it only accumulated 100 a year, including interest. If anyone could provide insight and maybe make a bit more sense of this that would be great. Could someone have possibly dipped their hands in the cookie jar and be hiding it? I hate to think that about anyone in my family, but I want to consider all possibilities...  <response>: So first off, youre going to be fine - most of us dont have a trust fund to kick off our lives, and we end up doing just fine. Take a breather, realize that whatever you get is basically free money to you and youre very fortunate to get it, and relax.Now, that said, there are plenty of reasonable ways that the trust fund might have that low-ish amount of money in it, anything from how much money was added to it to how the money was allocated into investments, etc. When you take possession of the trust this is all things that you can look into, and its possible that there has been some impropriety going on, but unless you have very specific reasons to suspect anything its unlikely this is the case. Depending on how the trust was set up there are situations in which it would be perfectly acceptable for someone else to access that money if they needed to.All that said, its unlikely youre going to come across another 18k magically hidden somewhere and recoverable, so at least until you get your hands on it and can check to see how the money was invested, its likely best to make plans to make the most of what money you will be getting and move on. 