SACRAMENTO – A Fresno woman who won $750,000 from a California Lottery Scratchers ticket says she plans to use the money to buy her family a house.
The woman, who requested anonymity, scratched a $750,000 Payday Scratchers ticket earlier today and claimed her prize at a Lottery district office just minutes later. She says that the win “still hasn’t sunk in,” but that she looks forward to house shopping.
The prize will be paid in annual payments over the course of 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.