SACRAMENTO – Christmas isn’t over for a lucky Cathedral City man. He won $750,000 from a California Lottery Payday Scratchers® ticket, which he considers a very welcome post-Christmas gift.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he “didn’t believe” that he had won at first. According to his mother and girlfriend, who were both present when he scratched the ticket, he “turned a couple of different colors” upon seeing the big prize.
He said he has no immediate plans for the money. The Scratchers ticket was purchased on December 26 from the Circle K located at 35472 Date Palm Drive in Cathedral City. The prize will be paid over 25 years.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.
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