Illinois Lottery Winners Get Stiffed When State Checks Don’t Cash

[bijou]

Eighty-five Illinois Lottery winners last week probably thought they were lucky — until they tried to cash in their winnings, that is.

Their checks, totaling $159,000 in lottery winnings, were no good.

Two days after Christmas, Maureen Furio of Lake Zurich bought an instant scratch-off ticket and won $1000. The next day, she got a check from the lottery.

“I deposited it the same day and went ahead and paid some extra Christmas bills,” Furio says. “And Jan. 3, it bounced.”

“Not bounced … returned,” says Mike Lang, spokesman for the Illinois Lottery. He says lottery officials failed to key in the required security verification on the checks issued on Dec. 28. ...

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[AmPat]

Illinois? That's a liberal state right? ;) Maybe the players should buy their tickets with personal checks.

[NJCardFan]

I bet those welfare checks cleared no problem.

[Rockntractor]

I bet those welfare checks cleared no problem.

Safer bet then their lottery!

[JB]

“Not bounced … returned”

LMAO with the semantics. Dude, when someone doesn't get their money, what the heck is the difference?

Now I know why they don't allow guns in Chicago.

[RobJohnson]

I bet those welfare checks cleared no problem.

I know a couple small businesses that went under a few years ago due to vey late state medicaid payments..

This is not a huge shock to me!

[RobJohnson]

[djones520]

If that was real, I'd so pay the extra fee to keep illinois plates on my truck instead of switching to Michigan.