Florida Lottery player reclaim its $7,400 previously diverted to DEO

Florida Lottery player reclaim its $7,400 previously diverted to DEO, the winner was so happy to win such a good prize. 

Maria Sanchez and at least 13 other Florida Lottery winners who were told their prizes were garnished by the Department of Economic Opportunity to cover unemployment overpayments.

Three days later, Everett, a former manager trainee with Applebee’s, was able to walk into the Florida Lottery office in Altamonte Springs and collect a check for $5,000, the money he won on a Monopoly “Doubler” lotto ticket just days earlier.

“I was on my way to work at about 2:30 p.m. Monday,” Everett recalled. “It was from Tallahassee and I thought this has to be the lottery.”

“She only received $1,400, and paid $200 in taxes,” she said. “They took away the money real quick, like that day.”