UK Lottery fears website error caused players to discard winning tickets

Comment #9

music* — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:19:50 GMT

I think that you save the tickets and add them up then you deduct a certain percentage from your tax bill.

The percentage depends upon your tax rate. A CPA would know about this.

Comment #8

Erzulieredeyes — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:37:51 GMT

Hmmm.... I thought old tickets can only be used for tax purposes if you won a bigger prize over $600 and have to make a claim? Otherwise it's just wasted printed paper.

Comment #7

rgse90 — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:30:30 GMT

You never throw away tickets because they can be used for tax purposes here in this country. But in the UK they DO NOT pay taxes on lottery winnings. So they do throw it away after the drawings. People in the UK trust their systems so it does not surprise me that they threw them out. They are too trusting of a society.

Comment #6

Erzulieredeyes — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:45:05 GMT

An error? yeah like I'm supposed to believe that line.

Everything is fine and dandy when the lottery company cheats it's players, but let a lottery player try cheating the lottery and see where that gets you. Bet they won't allow you to call it a mistake or error and make like nothing ever happened!

The Horsesho e Casino in Cleveland tried pulling that crap with me and denying me my $25000 when they told me it was a mistake and that the machines can not produce more than a 5000 win.... [ More ]

Comment #5

savagegoose — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:18:33 GMT

30 days huh, is that 30 days from the mistake, or 30 days from the date that UK lotteries actually owned up to their boobery, and actually reported it as news? even so, being an avid lotto player, i like to actually check my own numbers at the draw, and again on the self checking machine. well when i used to buy tickets, now theyre mostly digital and i rely solely on their programs to check the numbers and alert me of prizes. hmmm maybe im too trusting.

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Comment #4

sully16 — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:37:23 GMT

Yikes.

Comment #3

mypiemaster — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:47:59 GMT

Test data my ass. Incompetence to the max. Real players do not throw away their tickets after the draw anyway. My problem with this is the fact that some people who thought they won big, now have to go back to their stupid jobs, that they have momentarily kissed goodbye. What a heartbreak!!!.

Comment #2

music* — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:37:55 GMT

I keep my tickets for tax purposes.

Comment #1

haymaker — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:31:27 GMT

The only tix I throw away that are less then a month old are the ones bought in December,

and even those are checked on multiple sources.

UK Lottery fears website error caused players to discard winning tickets

Lottery Post — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:46:27 GMT

By Todd Northrop

The United Kingdom National Lottery is putting out an urgent call for players to re-check their Lotto tickets from the Oct. 10 drawing because the Lottery published the wrong numbers on their website.

To promote the re-launching of the revamped Lotto game on Oct. 10, the UK National Lottery held an expanded raffle drawing that awarded 25 prizes of 1,000,000 (US$1.5 million). During a normal drawing the lottery would award just one prize of 1,000,000.

When the winning ra... [ More ]