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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

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