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The states use their unclaimed lottery prizes for different purposes, but unclaimed prize money typically remains in a state's lottery fund. ... March 26, 2024; a New Jersey player. $1.050 billion ...
Each of the 46 lotteries has rules in regards to unclaimed prizes, most Mega Millions members set aside unclaimed winnings for educational purposes. [47] [48] In 2007, a $31 million prize went unclaimed in New York. [49] Many prizes of $250,000 each have been unclaimed, including several in Michigan for 2007 drawings. [50]
A New Jersey player who won the first Mega Millions jackpot of 2024, an estimated $1.128 billion prize, has yet to claim their winnings, according to state lottery officials.
Powerball ticket. After a nearly three-month stretch with no one matching all six numbers, we finally have a winner of the record-setting $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot.
CHF 64.6 million (US$72.8 million) was the largest winner in Switzerland's Swiss Lotto, won on 2 March 2024. [81] £35.1 million (US$49.6 million) was the largest winner on the UK Lotto game in April 2016. €38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013.
In Fiscal Year 2024, Lottery sales were more than $5.5 billion. The lottery generated more than $934 million for public education, $4.2 billion went back to players as prizes, and more than $142 million was earned by retailers as sales commissions. The Lottery has a number of programs highlighting its connection to education in the Commonwealth.
The winning numbers are 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and Powerball 24. If the ticket is yours and you still have it on hand, you should sign the back and get to Kentucky Lottery headquarters to claim your prize.
Any unclaimed prize money is transferred to the education fund in addition to the minimum 34% that the Lottery is already obligated to transfer from income. Because many of the 44 Mega Millions participants have a one-year claim period, the California legislature changed the language in the Lottery Act.