Over 27.8 billion yen in unclaimed lottery winnings in the first half of this year

It has been revealed that the amount of unclaimed lottery winnings that went unclaimed amounted to 62.7 billion won last year and 27.8 billion won in the first half of this year alone.
According to documents received by People's Power lawmaker Park Sung Hoon from the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on the 15th, the number of unclaimed lottery winnings from the first half of this year
The total amount of winnings was 27.857 billion won. The largest amount was unclaimed online lottery tickets such as Lotto, at 22.831 billion won, followed by paper lottery tickets such as instant lottery tickets at 2.58 billion won.
The unclaimed lottery amount for the past five years was △59,231 million won in 2020, △20,231 million won in 2019, and △2,437 million won in 2020.
The figure was 51.574 billion won in 2019 and 49.245 billion won in 2022, but increased significantly to 62.71 billion won last year.
The metropolitan city or province that recorded the highest lottery sales in the first half of this year was Gyeonggi Province, the most populous city in the nation.
) (750.9 billion won). A total of 90 first prize winners were from Gyeonggi Province, with each winner receiving an average of 2 billion won in prize money.
In second place was Seoul (492.4 billion won) with 60 first prize winners, followed by Incheon with 26 and Busan with 24.
The order was South Korea with 23 cases, South Gyeongsang with 20, South Jeolla with 17, and Gangwon, Daegu and North Chungbuk with 14 each.
The other cases were 13 in North Gyeongsang Province, 12 each in Gwangju and Daejeon, and 1 in North Jeolla Province.
The top 10 were from Seoul, Seoul (1 in Seoul), Seoul (9 in Jeju), Seoul (8 in Chungnam), Seoul (5 in Ulsan), Seoul (2 in Sejong), and Seoul (10 on the Internet).
Lotto 1st prize money must be claimed within one year from the start of payment and can only be claimed at the main branch of Nonghyup Bank.
According to the Lottery and Lottery Fund Law, any winnings that have passed the payment deadline will be returned to the Lottery Fund in full and used for various public welfare projects such as welfare for low-income vulnerable groups, housing stability, scholarship programs, and the promotion of culture and the arts.
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