Utah toddler puts more than $1,000 in the shredder

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The last place you want to find a missing envelope full of money is in your shredder.

But that's where Ben and Jackee Belnap of Salt Lake City, Utah, discovered their $1,060 (拢810), which they needed to pay for University of Utah American football season tickets.

Searching for the missing money, they were horrified to find it torn to pieces - courtesy of their son, Leo.

Their two-year-old son helps shred junk mail, and was trying to be helpful.

" and just things with our name on it, or important documents we want to get rid of," Jackee told news station KSL TV.

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She and Ben had been saving up the money to repay his parents for the football tickets.

Jackee told USA Today .

The couple then placed it on a counter to remind themselves to deliver it - only for the envelope to disappear.

After a house-wide search, Jackee found the remains in the shredder.

But the couple are in luck. , provided they send it to them and their "trained experts" can piece it back together.

Ben called the department and was told: "Bag it up in little Ziploc bags, mail it to DC, and in one to two years, you'll get your money back."

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The US Treasury says it handles about 30,000 claims and redeems mutilated currency worth about $30m every year.