{"id":99,"date":"2023-06-26T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:46:21","slug":"man-tried-to-redeem-1-million-winning-ticket-but-state-refused-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Man Tried To Redeem $1 Million Winning Ticket, But State Refused To Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn\u2019t the first time that it\u2019s happened \u2014 multiple people have won the lottery and tried to redeem their winning tickets, but this state simply refused to pay up, causing a massive uproar among the furious community.<\/h3>\n
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Illinois families were outraged after the state failed to pay out their lottery winnings. According to Tom Zimmerman, an attorney who represented some of the winners, the state refused to pay out a whopping $288 million in winnings,\u00a0Yahoo! News<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

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The state of Illinois announced that it would not be paying out any winnings over $600 until a budget crisis was resolved, according to\u00a0TIME<\/a>. However, TV ads promoting the lottery continued to air.\u00a0\u201cIf any private business would engage in this kind of conduct, selling tickets and not paying out the winner, the state would shut them down and indict them for fraud,\u201d said Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

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Tom Zimmerman, an attorney who represented some of the lottery winners who weren\u2019t paid by the state of Illinois. (Photo Credit:\u00a0Screen Capture\/Inside Edition\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rhonda Rasche, a 49-year-old hospital clerk, said that after getting a winning scratch-off ticket for $50,000, officials told her she would be receiving a check in the mail with her\u00a0winnings<\/a>\u00a0in four to six weeks. But, months later, she still had not yet been paid. \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for a check for $50,000,\u201d she said. Rasche is part of the group of lottery winners who sued the state to get their winnings.<\/p>\n

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One upset lottery winner, Susan Rick, spoke to\u00a0Inside Edition<\/a>, saying, \u201cWe won. We finally can have a comfortable life. Suddenly you\u2019re gonna pull the rug out from under us. We had a ticket for $250,000.\u201d<\/p>\n