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* As if getting kicked out of the Powerball and Mega Millions wasn’t enough…
If you win more than $25,000 in the Illinois Lottery after July 1, don’t expect to take home your winnings right away.
The Illinois Lottery said the lack of funding due to the state budget crisis will cause a delay in the payment of lottery winnings. In 2015, a similar situation caused by a lack of appropriations held up more than $112 million in lottery claims.
“Players should be confident knowing the Illinois Lottery has the money to pay these winning claims,” Illinois Lottery Acting Director Greg Smith said. “That means the General Assembly needs to approve a truly balanced budget that includes Lottery funding in order to ensure all prize payments will occur.”
Small prizes of $600 or less will continue to be paid normally.
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 1:45 pm
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No lotto winnings? Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Comment by Ratso Rizzo Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 1:55 pm
First they go after the pensions of public employees, and now they’re going after my retirement plan too?
This aggression shall not stand, man.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 1:58 pm
===”That means the General Assembly needs to approve a truly balanced budget that includes Lottery funding… “===
Wait, what… ?
“… truly balanced budget that includes Lottery funding… ”
So there can be a truly balanced budget without lottery funding… or there can’t BE a truly balanced budget without lottery funding…
What an extremely odd way to talk about your agency’s issues of the day.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 1:59 pm
Illinois: Win small.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 1:59 pm
So there are pots of money that have been collected but can not paid out until a budget is approved? Does anyone know the real accounting of all funds are (money coming in, sitting in funds, owed)? Seems like every week the numbers keep changing, so how can any informed decisions be made without the true information being known?
Comment by ejjp Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:00 pm
The Illinois Lottery”It’s for the children!!”
Comment by GLG Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:04 pm
OW, I think he’s referring to the appropriation authority, not the revenue that comes in from the lottery.
Comment by ??? Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:04 pm
===…I think he’s referring to the appropriation authority, not the revenue that comes in from the lottery===
I hear ya. Yep.
It’s this whole “truly balanced budget” jargon as THE inhibitor or lynch pin.
It’s walking a very fine line of the politics and governing in a mish-mosh “truly”… Wha?
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:07 pm
“Players should be confident knowing the Illinois Lottery has the money to pay these winning claims,” unless it gets swept for the GRF.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:09 pm
Advertising and selling tickets for jackpots you legally cannot pay is fraud.
Try it some time, see what happens.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:20 pm
Everybody should quit playing in the first stage of a citizen’s revolt against the state government. The big games are rackets anyway…
Comment by Mouthy Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:21 pm
How is this any different from inducing vendors into signing contracts when the state has no legal ability to pay?
Comment by Henry Francis Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:30 pm
Sad, one of my favorite revenue generators for the State. Pot legalization should be done immediately. Illinois is missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue by not legalizing and regulating the sale of marijuana.
Comment by Ron Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:34 pm
Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math
Illinois Lottery: a game run by a state that is bad at math
Comment by weary Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 2:44 pm
Guessin’ lottery still has not produced docunents proving Powerball and Megamillions us cutting them off. Gov Happy junk created crisis
Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 3:02 pm
After 2 1/2 years without a budget, why should lottery winners feel confident that the money will be there. Did the Gov. just sweep all the money from the state solar power fund?
Comment by No fool Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 3:05 pm
Many of the Dem base voters will suffer disparate impact if the lottery stops paying
Comment by Texas Red Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 3:10 pm
What about fake Powerball cut off…any proof?
Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 3:10 pm
Brothers and sisters its all a scam. The house always wins
Comment by Never play with people who play with guns Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 5:01 pm
Does the ‘Acting Director’ ‘truly’ understand that he has allowed his name, reputation and agency to be used, quite cynically and ruthlessly, by the Administration for, at best, short term political advantage?
Comment by Joe Public Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 5:01 pm
New Lottery slogan: “Just think of what you could do with $600!”
Comment by CEA Tuesday, Jun 27, 17 @ 10:36 pm
For all those folks that didn’t play the lottery because the jackpots were “just too large”…….
Comment by Chuckee Baby Wednesday, Jun 28, 17 @ 8:19 am