One man said he went to collect the prize with his 12-year-old son at the lottery office in Jacksonville. Instead of cash, they were handed a “special circumstances” lotto form.
– Two Florida men in two different cities each won $1,000 playing lottery tickets then lost the cash prizes to the Department of Economic Opportunity the day they went to collect their holiday cash, as written by News4JAX’s news partnerJerry Kirkpatrick, a self-employed handyman from Ocala, and John Moore, a manager for Battalion Airsoft Arena in Jacksonville, are the latest lotto players caught in an unemployment overpayment issue.
Moore said his DEO account was active in 2020 when he collected benefits for about three months, but he had not used the account since. Moore was told he owed $1,200, while Kirkpatrick told News 6 he was told he owed $3,000 to cover an unemployment overpayment to the DEO.
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