Tennessee bill advances to remove lottery winners from government assistance

Comment #12

Slick Nick — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:13:06 GMT

A case point I'd like to make is this: If the money they receive from the government was used to buy the ticket, it's our money we pay to support these people. Then they should be grounded from further assistance.

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:14:06 GMT

He didn't say that it was silly for the state to offer a lottery. He said that it's silly for somebody who doesn't have enough to live on to play the lottery.

Comment #10

patricks6 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:40:44 GMT

There cousin will get the money n there name

Comment #9

zephbe — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:47:11 GMT

'With that said, could you imagine entrusting someone with a multi-million ticket? It would be like see you later alligator, what ticket?'

Seems like a multi-million dollar win would be enough for a person to get off assistance. They should claim the win themselves.

SC handles win of $5,000 or more as follows:

DEBT SETOFF

Pursuant to Section 59-150-330(F) of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, prizes of $5,000 or more trigger a debt set off search for any debt owed to the State... [ More ]

Comment #8

Soledad — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:26 GMT

as silly and ridiculous as the lottery.. very judgemental statement from a politician considering that each state rakes in millions or billions even of dollars from the lottery each year and those funds help out with governmental or state run programs as well.

Just play .50 box, you'll be fine

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:49:38 GMT

As many of us know, and many folks on assistance do that win is give the ticket to someone else to collect, pay the taxes for a stipend and the original owner gets the biggest chunk. Met two folks in KY over the years and that is what they did, though the amounts were just several thousand dollars.

With that said, could you imagine entrusting someone with a multi-million ticket? It would be like see you later alligator, what ticket

Comment #6

noise-gate — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:53:02 GMT

Do these politicians envision $5,000 taking care of an individual for say : 2-5 years...Longer

Comment #5

Groppo — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 02:40:31 GMT

.

Yeah, Hmmph

( hmmph

Comment #4

Raven62 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:41:12 GMT

Why is it that Money and Fraud seem to go Together?

Could it be Dishonesty

Comment #3

smooth11484 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:18:32 GMT

where would that 186 mill go

Comment #2

TheGameGrl — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:13:52 GMT

Bout time Tennessee catches up to cross checking verifications. Currenly most states check for past dues on alimony,child support, warrants and liens.

Poor folks ...Discriminated...By sheer economy and luck...

I feel for the shut ins ....

Comment #1

hearsetrax — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:09:26 GMT

Hmmph

Tennessee bill advances to remove lottery winners from government assistance

Lottery Post — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:52:48 GMT

The Tennessee House on Monday passed a bill despite opposition from Democrats that, if it becomes law, would require the names of lottery winners to be cross checked with federal and state government assistance programs.

Sponsored by Rep. Dan Howell, R-Georgetown, passed by a 73-21 near party-line vote on Monday night.

The bill would make any lottery winner of prizes more than $5,000 ineligible for government assistance. Howell said federal law, which has a lower prize threshold, requires