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I know that this is technically not a lottery question, it's about PCH Sweepstakes bankruptcy .
So, Publisher's Clearinghouse had a Sweepstakes where if you win you were supposed to win millions of dollars for life through an annuity program. They even had an annuity program where when you die someone you chose as your heir, gets millions of dollars until they die. Recently and suddenly, PCH went bankrupt, leaving winners suddenly in financial ruin. One winner won the annuity Sweepstakes roughly 10 years ago and quit his job since he was promised millions of dollars until his death. He was
May 25, 2026, 10:05 pm - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity Powerball Winning
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Dec 17, 2025, 1:11 pm - vblar - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The cash value is only running at 10% of what it would be when it was at $2.00 a line. What are you failing to say correctly? Both annuity and cash value are lagging behind previous runs, but the cash value, as always, is the percentage of the annuity that it necessary to pay for the annuity. Right now that's about 44.3%. Although the MM jackpot may be lagging behind previous MM runs it's well ahead of PB on a per drawing basis. When the previous MM run was hit on the 21st drawing the adver
Jul 26, 2025, 1:09 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is the Annuity payout safe?Reply
I also was thinking about the recent Publisher's Clearinghouse annuity fiasco when they went bankrupt and left annuity winners out in the cold and one annuity winner in particular was left financially ruined as he quit his job roughly 10 years ago when he won the PCH Annuity for Life as he was supposed to be getting millions of dollars from PCH until his death and then the payments suddenly stopped permanently when the PCH filed for bankruptcy. He said that he was having a hard time finding a jo
May 23, 2026, 5:17 pm - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is the Annuity payout safe?
What happens to your annuity payments if your state lottery closes?
May 19, 2026, 10:18 pm - justAndy1970 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is the Annuity payout safe?Reply
Unlike Publisher's Clearinghouse, when you win a large amount of money and take the annuity, the lottery really does have all the money needed to fund the annuity right now. They buy the annuity for you and then you collect from whoever sold the annuity to the state (probably government bonds). You are not depending on the state to raise the money needed to pay you every year.
May 20, 2026, 9:51 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash Value
Cash values of the MM PB jackpots are around 45% of the advertised Annuity. What would be your choice ?
May 8, 2026, 11:49 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

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The cash value goes up with sales (27.6305% to be exact). Then, they calculate what the annuity value is based on that cash prize and current interest rates. If interest rates go up, the sum total of annuity payments goes up. If interest rates go down, the sum total of annuity payments goes down. It would be nice if these lottery games would just advertise the cash value, and let the winner decide to put the money into an annuity, or not. The sum total of annuity payments under whatever inve
Feb 14, 2026, 2:15 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm too generous with MM annuity.
Oct 1, 2025, 11:45 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
My guess is 487 for annuity
Sep 23, 2025, 12:34 pm - SoCola - Lottery Discussion Forum