Mega Millions & Powerball prizes never ever declared

( BNN) – – Five prizes of cash have actually never ever been claimed.

Can you think of winning life-altering cash, but never knowing it was right there?

According to Mega Millions and Powerball jackpot history posted to the lottery game sites, there have actually been three unclaimed Mega Millions prizes and two Powerball prizes that were likewise never ever declared - - totaling more than $265 million of passed-up cash.

The most current missed opportunity was just last year. A winning Mega Millions jackpot ticket worth $36 million was sold in Jacksonville, Florida ahead of the August 15, 2023 drawing. Months passed and no one stepped forward. The Florida Lottery and Mega Millions lotto even released a news release notifying individuals that the deadline to declare the jackpot prize was coming but nobody ever stepped up to claim the prize.

This wasn't Florida's first offense. According to Powerball.com, 10 years previously in May 2013, a Powerball jackpot worth $50 million was never ever claimed.

New york city is likewise guilty of missing huge sums of money more than as soon as. Mega Millions reports an unclaimed prize worth $68 million was never declared in 2002 and then a 2nd Mega Millions jackpot won in the state, worth $31 million, was never ever declared in 2006.

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In Georgia, a $77 million Powerball jackpot went unclaimed in June 2011, according to Powerball.com.

So what takes place to all of that cash?

Both Mega Millions and Powerball report it as a "regularly asked question" and state if the cash prize is not claimed by a certain deadline it's distributed back to each participating state lotto which then distributes the cash based upon their own jurisdiction's laws. For instance, in Florida, 80% of unclaimed funds from ended tickets are transferred directly to the education fund. The staying 20 percent is returned to the reward pool for future rewards.