Lottery Winners Go To Claim $288M Winnings, State Refuses To Pay

When the news got out that Illinois failed to pay their winning lottery tickets, families and residents are outraged and demand justice.

Many of the winners have sought legal help to fight back against the state that stole their dreams away from them.One attorney, Tom Zimmerman, has started representing some of the winners and claims that Illinois has failed to pay out $288 million in lottery prizes.

Why should residents be punished for the state’s budget crisis? Or if they really are too broke to pay out lottery winnings, why are they still selling tickets?One female lottery winner, Susan Rick, opened up about how the State screwed her out of thousands during an interview with Inside Edition.Rick said: “We won. We finally can have a comfortable life. Suddenly you’re gonna pull the rug out from under us. We had a ticket for $250,000.”

Rick and her family are not the only ones who have been punished by Illinois’s unfair move to defraud lottery players.

Viewers of the popular segment left comments including:“Ok, now I am moving out of Illinois”“I don’t feel sorry about the Illinois Lottery: It’s not their fault-it is this country’s fault. This nation will NEVER HAVE a good and healthy economy as long as the Federal Reserve is in business. Do you realize-or even understand-that they print money out from NOTHING??”

“WE WANT OUR MONEY”

“THEY WANT THEIR MONEY GIVE THEM THEIR MONEY”

What would you do if your state refused to pay your lottery winnings?