The dream of many people, especially those who love games of chance, is that one day i will win the lottery. Few are the lucky ones with it, even less those who receive a millionaire prize. However, there are those who have the winning ticket for a juicy prize and They never claim it or they don’t arrive on time to do it.
According to statistics, there between 30 and 70 percent of the prizes of these games that are never claimed, especially in the United States, where it happens more often. In the North American country, a winner of six million dollars went to receive the prize three days late, with which he was left without collecting it.
But it has not been the only famous case. Another of these unfortunate events occurred in the United Kingdom, where a few years ago there was a winner of the EuroMillions jackpot: an amount of 60 million euros. However, the lucky one still hasn’t come forward to claim it.. In Illinois, they stopped collecting more than 12 million euros in 2005, and in Indiana a prize of almost 46 million was left empty in 2002.
The most frequent cause is that the winners do not know that they have the winning ticket, although there are also cases in which they lose that ticket. Even though the majority of unclaimed prizes are of minor or intermediate amounts, there are some that represent millions of euros. But where does that money go?
In France they raffle it
This will depend on the country where it happens. For example, in Spain the money not collected three months after the draw is always kept by the Treasury, regardless of the draw that is. Even those of Euromillions, where people from many European countries participate, the unclaimed prize that falls on Spanish territory goes to the national coffers. Thus, each year a significant amount of money is entered. For example, in 2016, 5 million euros were raised in this way.
However, this is not the case in all countries. For example, in France they accumulate all that money in a super jackpot that is raffled once a year. Another different example is United Kingdom, where they decided to allocate part of it to social causes and, in addition, they have a period of up to six months to claim it.
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