Maybe you bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball and because the odds of winning are so small, never checked to see if you have won. Maybe you bought a lottery ticket for an instant game or draw game and promptly lost the ticket. How do you know you are not someone who is due unclaimed lottery money? There are always news stories about lottery winnings that are never claimed, sometimes in the millions of dollars.Just last year, a Powerball ticket purchased in West Georgia worth $77 million dollars went unclaimed. It’s painful to think that someone could be sitting on that kind of money and just carelessly let it go, but it happens all the time. So, what does happen to all of that money? The answer depends on the state in which the unclaimed lottery ticket was purchased.

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<\/a>Maybe you bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball and because the odds of winning are so small, never checked to see if you have won. Maybe you bought a lottery ticket for an instant game or draw game and promptly lost the ticket. How do you know you are not someone who is due unclaimed lottery money? There are always news stories about lottery winnings that are never claimed, sometimes in the millions of dollars.Just last year, a Powerball ticket purchased in West Georgia worth $77 million dollars went unclaimed. It’s painful to think that someone could be sitting on that kind of money and just carelessly let it go, but it happens all the time. So, what does happen to all of that money? The answer depends on the state in which the unclaimed lottery ticket<\/a> was purchased.<\/p>\n\n