WISCONSIN LOTTERY PRIZE WORTH $ 40 MILLION STILL UNCLAIMED
In the past eleven years, lottery winners in Wisconsin have failed to stake claim to more than $ 38.3 million in prizes. Besides, another $ 3 million is likely to go as unclaimed in the current fiscal year, says spokesman Andrew Bohage.
He added to state that it did not include the unclaimed scratch-off winners. Lottery prizes need to be redeemed within a span of 180 days. After that period, any unclaimed money goes to property tax relief. Bohage further stays that he finds it difficult to pinpoint a single reason as to why the winnings were not claimed. However, he suspects that several players do not understand that there are prizes which are other than jackpots. For instance, the multistate game of Powerball offers several prizes that range from $ 7 to $ 2, 00,000 in order to match few of the six winning numbers. The same thing goes for the other games of lotto, such as badger 5, megabucks and super cash.
The moment the Powerball jackpots get increasingly big, people not really paying attention to games know necessarily about the prize levels, says Bohage. They start playing games as they think about jackpots, but don’t check the tickets.
Majority of winnings which are left to the states are in small amounts, though lesser than $ 10,000 go unclaimed each year, he says.
Bohage also says that some players may even forget to turn the tickets or lose track of their tickets before the deadline. On the other hand, the others don’t bother with the redemption of ticket for small rewards.
The previous years’ $ 3.57 million dollars in unclaimed winnings totaled to an amount below 2 percent of the $ 200 million in lotto sales, Bohage told Post Creston.
Owner of cellars spirits and wines in Neenah Leroy Schneidewend, a longtime retailer in lottery was surprised to note that a large amount of money went unclaimed. However, he said that he knew sometimes players got confused. He then recalled a customer who cashed in the super cash ticket.
On handing me the ticket, he said he had $ 5 winner, said Schneidewend. And, it came up as a winner of $ 500. It shook him a bit. Neenah’s Robert Ball said that he was careful to closely check his tickets to ensure he wasn’t throwing the money away. He still acknowledged, “I had tickets at home, but I haven’t checked it yet”.
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