A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday’s $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to claim the prize, Oregon officials said.

The lottery ticket was purchased at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in the northeast part of the city, Oregon Lottery said in a statement.

Oregon Lottery is working with the person in a process that involves security measures and vetting that will take time before a winner is announced.

“This is an unprecedented jackpot win for Oregon Lottery,” Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells said in the statement. “We’re taking every precaution to verify the winner before awarding the prize money.”

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      7 months ago

      Big jackpot winners like this rarely go broke. The ones you hear about won much less.

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        7 months ago

        Good point, I’d call that a tie, since if they die before going broke the money would be inherited by someone, someone who possibly learned a thing or two by how the guy spent the money.

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        7 months ago

        That’s a misbelief, most lottery winner do just fine long after winning. We just only hear about the ones who go broke because that’s report worthy.

        And it’s almost impossible to go broke with winning 1 billion. Even if you are only left with “only” 500 mil after taxes, and you manage to lose 99% of that, you are still left with 5 million. Which is still enough to have a comfortable life.

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          And it’s almost impossible to go broke with winning 1 billion. Even if you are only left with “only” 500 mil after taxes, and you manage to lose 99% of that, you are still left with 5 million.

          This jackpot was $1.3B. If they take the cash payout instead of the annuity that immediately reduces to $621M. They’ll owe 37% on that (well 37% on the vast majority in the top tax bracket) for the year to the IRS. And then it looks like 8% to the state of Oregon. So somewhere around $341M. Still an unimaginable sum.for most. Just wanted to clarify because I think a lot of people assume the “cash value” is post-tax.

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          It may be true, if only because “winning the lottery” can also include the smaller prizes, and then by number there are a lot more of those, so half goes a long way…