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Here Is What Will Happen To The Unclaimed $44M Florida Lottery Prize

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If you are wondering what happens to unclaimed lottery money, you have come to the right article. “Here is what will happen to the unclaimed $44M Florida lottery prize,” There was a $44M lottery ticket sold at a gas station in Kissimmee on June 14th. Kissimmee is about 2 hours from where I live in St. Petersburg. The deadline to claim the prize was December 11th.

Where Will The Money Go?

Even though nobody stepped up to claim the money, the Sunoco Express that sold the ticket will still get a percentage. Also, 80% of the prize will go toward state education funds. The remaining 20%? Reports tell us it will go toward future drawings.

The owner of the Sunoco said he was shocked to learn that his tore had sold the winning ticket. Im sure he was even more in shock learning that nobody claimed the money. Since the lotto launched in the 1980s, there have been 30 jackpots that have gone unclaimed.

Here Is What Will Happen To The Unclaimed $44M Florida Lottery Prize

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Florida Resident Made History Purchasing Lottery Ticket Worth $1.586B

Im so happy for anybody who wins the Lottery! No matter how big or small, it’s still a blessing to just win something. Even though I’m envious, I get so excited when someone goes to the store and spends a little but wins millions or even billions. Im no stranger to buying lottery tickets. I frequently buy them from the Publix right here in Tampa. I also played the lottery a lot when I lived in Fort Myers.

My mom would ask me, “what lottery games do you like to play?”  I like to play the scratch off tickets.  I also will buy a Mega Millions or Powerball ticket when the jackpot gets high. There has been a list created of the 10 Biggest U.S. Lottery Jackpots, and one of the tickets was sold right here in Florida. All of the people who won these jackpots have made history! Below is the list of states where the Top 5 Lottery Jackpot winning tickets were sold.

  • Illinois

    One lucky person in Illinois bought the winning Mega Millions ticket in July of 2022. They came forward after several weeks but their identity is unknown. They purchased the 5th largest jackpot prize totaling $1.337B.

  • Maine

    •  A person in Maine won the 4th largest Jackpot in U.S. history.  The jackpot was estimated at $1.35 billion dollars. The drawing was on Jan 13th of this year and it was sold in Lebanon, Maine.

  • South Carolina

     This was the third largest jackpot and it was a Mega Millions Prize worth $1.54B. The ticket was drawn in October of 2018.  The winner is from South Carolina but did not come forward until a year later. They chose to take their winnings in a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124 .

  • Florida

    This was the second biggest Jackpot and it was split in three ways. This Powerball prize was $1.586B. It was sold in 2016 and there were three matching tickets.  The Melbourne Beach resident who won in Florida also had to split the prize with a California and Tennessee resident. Still not a bad deal though. With a three way split they would each get $528M.

  • California

    This is the Largest Lottery Jackpot to date. It was a Powerball ticket that was sold in November of 2022. The city it was purchased in was Altadena! The ticket was worth $2.04B. According to Lottery officials, the ticket holder was the first lottery billionaire in the state of California.

Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.

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