Does he attend casinos? Does he owe someone some money?

Depending on the creditor, it is quite possible they 'lost it' or 'never received it'. This happened to me personally with mortgage companies during the recession. I sent checks, but they never received them. I started using certified mail.

As for the gambling problem, it is something to keep an eye on it. I've known recovering gamblers who were 20 yrs out of it, who got back in the game. I am not saying that is the issue, just be careful.

If it truly is just a mistake, and he forgot to give you the receipt or mail payment, tell him to find a way to come up with the money AGAIN , and let it be a learning experience. This is why my DH takes care of online payments, and I take care of the checks. I hate money orders for this reason.

Um.....I once tried to get a money order using my check card (visa debit card) tied to my checking account because I'd forgotten my checkbook at home and wanted to mail a payment right away while I was at work. They wouldn't sell it to me. Said I had to pay cash for the money order. Maybe it was just their policy but maybe that's true of all money orders, I hardly ever use them so I don't know. I think yourr husband is lying to you about getting the money order and sending it in for that bill.

Hm......that ten digit number...try calling it. It could be a phone number for wherever the money went. It should say where he bought the money order if that's what the money was spent on. Generally it'll say "Walgreens" or whatever, not some random code. Seriously, dial a one first then those ten digits (possibly an area code and phone number) and see what happens. Or google it as if its a phone number. Do a reverse phone lookup on whitepages.com.

Maybe that's the serial number for the money order, then? Try calling the store and ask them. Ask for a manager first, they're more likely to be helpful because a random person might not know and will just tell you the wrong thing. If this the serial number they should be able to track it and if not cashed put a stop payment on it and issue another.

If you have the number off the money order you should be able to phone in and see if money was checked and when. I realize you don't have the actual back part of money order, but usually on the back is info on how to tell if received and cashed. You might try going to store, explaining DH is a fool and asking for the phone number or information that is on back of the money orders they sell. Once you have that you should be able to use the money order # on your statement to check if the thing was ever cashed.

We use money orders to pay DH's CS. BM won't open a bank account, so we use money orders so we can have record of what is paid.

We've not found a place that would let us purchase one with anything other than cash. Not that it isn't possible, but we've never found one.

I carry all of the stubs from our payments. There's a number on the back for "Moneygram" you can call (I don't know if all money orders are through them. That's what we get from Walmart.) but I know when I call to get the information for when each one of ours is cashed, I have to provide the assigned money order number (ours all begin with an "R" & are followed by 12 digits), the date of the purchase & the amount of the purchase.

As for the number on the bank statement, it's likely just a transaction number that is assigned by the bank.

We're trying to track down a draft from MIL's bank account with such a number from her statement, & even the bank can't tell us anything about what the draft is for. They said that number is just assigned as a transaction number for that particular draft.