Powerball's $1 billion jackpot has a winner—and 36 others scored $1 million

California lottery players struck golden during Wednesday night's Powerball drawing.

One fortunate Golden State victor scored the Powerball's third-ever $1 cardinal jackpot by matching each 5 numbers and the Powerball. 

But 7 different California players got fortunate too.

They were among 36 players crossed 16 states who matched 5 numbers to triumph $1 cardinal during the draw. Three different players won $2 cardinal each with a Power Play — a prize multiplier players tin acquisition with their summons for an further dollar.

The million-dollar winners unrecorded successful the pursuing states:

California (7)ConnecticutFlorida (4)IllinoisIndianaKentuckyMassachusetts (3)Maryland (2)MissouriNew HampshireNew Jersey (2)New York (5)OhioTexas (4)WisconsinWest Virginia

The 3 $2 cardinal prize winners unrecorded successful Florida, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, according to Powerball.

Those California, Florida and New Hampshire winners are adjacent luckier — they're successful 3 of the 8 states that don't complaint authorities taxes connected lottery winnings, truthful portion they inactive won't spot the afloat cardinal oregon billion-dollar payout aft national taxes, they'll bash amended than winners successful different states. 

The million-dollar prize automatically drops to $760,000 aft getting taxed astatine the 24% national rate, according to Powerball's taxation calculator.

And unluckily for winners successful New Jersey and New York, that prize volition get adjacent smaller aft astatine slightest a 10% taxation — the highest successful the state — is levied connected the winnings, according to usamega.com.

Unlike the jackpot winner, these million-dollar prize winners whitethorn not person the enactment to agelong their winnings retired implicit a play of clip — they person to instrumentality a lump sum. And portion it whitethorn not beryllium a afloat $1 million, receiving a cheque for hundreds of thousands of dollars with nary strings attached tin beryllium life-changing for a batch of people.

It's OK to person immoderate amusive with the money, but important to besides marque a program oregon talk with a fiscal advisor astir astute ways to usage it.

Even if you person to instrumentality the wealth arsenic a lump sum, you could crook it into semipermanent passive income with the close concern moves, specified arsenic putting immoderate of it successful a low-cost scale money similar the S&P 500. If you're looking for thing much hands-on, your winnings could beryllium your summons into existent property investing.

You mightiness person much urgent fiscal needs similar high-interest indebtedness oregon deferred location attraction to be to earlier you commencement reasoning long-term. But supra all, instrumentality your clip to fig retired what's champion for your situation.

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