The lottery millionaires club – And whos missing out
A total of 158 lucky people joined the exclusive millionaires club over the past year – an increase of 26 on 2009.
The lottery has paid out ?775m in jackpot prizes alone this year – the highest ever paid out in one year.
A National Lottery spokesman said: “This has been an extraordinary year for our players with so many new millionaires and multi-millionaires created.
“There have been some huge prizes paid out during the last 12 months, and we’ve also been told that many of our big winners have created additional millionaires themselves as a result of their win, which is fantastic news.”
In October, the National Lottery hit the landmark of creating more than 2,500 millionaires since its launch 16 years ago.
A series of lottery records have also been smashed in what has been regarded as an unprecedented year.
In February, Nigel and justin paige from Gloucestershire, scooped the ?56m jackpot prize on EuroMillions.
Their win was followed by two even bigger payouts, one of ?84m in May and then ?113m in October.
Both ticket-holders opted to remain anonymous.
A further 25 millioniares were created on the christmas eve national lottery euromillions raffle draw.
So far, 15 out of the 25 ticket-holders have come forward to claim their ?1m prize money, a spokesman said. so that means that there are still 10 people totally unaware that they were made millionaires overnight.
In 2010, there were only 89 major unclaimed prizes, meaning that they remained unclaimed two weeks after the draw.
But 54 prizes were subsequently reunited with the winner within the 180-day deadline.
The remaining 15 unclaimed prizes were added to the ?25bn raised for good causes by the National Lottery.
Twenty prizes remain available to claim.
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