Iowa Lottery to shorten prize claim periods for multi-state games

Comment #9

ckrakowski — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:28:45 GMT

Well looks like the greedy hypocritical brain dead hating red hatter misspelled card carrying oppression and fascist loving freedom hating socialist hating welfare taking members of the gqp cult idiots want to steal even more money from public schools.

I can not wait to see how they falsely blame the dems for this.

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:24:11 GMT

The change has no monetary benefit to the Iowa Lottery,

It frees up prize money for other games, and we all know advertising more money an boost sales. It might not be huge, but it sure sounds like a monetary benefit to me.

it certainly gives no monetary benefit to the players.

But, but, but ... it might make players less likely to lose their tickets. I'm willing to believe that there's a small possibility that one in a great while somebody might want to put off claiming the ticket... [ More ]

Comment #7

db101 — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:15:31 GMT

The claim by time frame is in fine print on the back of the ticket.

Comment #6

tvboris — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:21:39 GMT

Haha, this rule is not about the big wins really. Yes, it affects those big wins obviously, but it is most targeted towards the small amounts like $2.

When I was buying tickets, while travelling in other states, if it turned out that I won $2 or something that small, I never turned up to claim that ticket. Because I never know when I would end up in that state again and obviously, most likely I'll forget about that ticket by that time.

There probably been tons of times when I didn... [ More ]

Comment #5

Think — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:19:56 GMT

As long as they then allow anonymous claims on those games also!

I do not know of anyone who has all their legal ducks in a row for a big jackpot claim.

I know if it were anonymous Multi State claims here I would not what 6 Minutes to go claim a prize let alone 6 months. I would contact a lawyer and an a tax guy on my way to Lansing if the Multi State Claims were anonymous here.

Comment #4

Tony Numbers — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:49:17 GMT

One of the reasons lottery tickets go unclaimed. Players get caught up in the moment of purchasing tickets, then become careless with the tickets, mis place them,, forget to check them,, meanwhile the clock is ticking... What they should do is right where the put that message on the ticket, it should state This ticket must be redeemed by(insert date) 180 days from the date of purchase.

Comment #3

Stack47 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:25:45 GMT

Eddie's New York lawyer waiting until the last hour caused red flags everywhere in the office.

The time limit for claiming any of the multiple state jackpots should be uniform and so should anonymity.

Comment #2

cottoneyedjoe — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 04:25:01 GMT

The change has no monetary benefit to the Iowa Lottery, the Lottery said in a press release yesterday.

Well, it certainly gives no monetary benefit to the players.

Comment #1

Mata Garbo — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:30:51 GMT

It may sound harsh, but that actually makes sense. Who needs a whole year to come pick up a check.? Unless you are coming from Mars, 6 months is plenty of time. Even the people who win hundreds of millions of dollars, usually show up with their lawyers within a couple of months, sometimes within a couple of weeks. I may be wrong but I seem to remember Kate telling us that Lottery Crook Eddie Tipton waited to the very last day. And we all know what he was up to. No thanks.

Iowa Lottery to shorten prize claim periods for multi-state games

Lottery Post — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:27:13 GMT

Board votes to allow shorter prize-claim deadline

By Kate Northrop

The Iowa Lottery Board voted last Tuesday to reduce the prize-claim period for four multi-state games in the state.

Lottery players in Iowa will have a shorter amount of time to claim prizes for some of the games offered by the Iowa Lottery.

Currently, the Iowa Lottery allows prize winners to claim their winnings within 365 days from the date of the drawing. Soon, that time window will be reduced to 180 days from