Last year, the lottery winnings, which expired because the owner did not visit them, were 41.3 billion won.
According to data received from the Lottery Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance by Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Joo-young, a member of the National Assembly Planning and Finance Committee today (22nd), the lottery prize that was sold before and expired last year was 41.315 billion won.
Lottery winnings are returned to the lottery fund if the owner does not return them within one year from the start of payment.
Last year, 1 prize money (2.379 billion won) for 1st place, 23 prizes for 2nd place (1.241 billion won), and 1412 prize money for 3rd place (2.027 billion won) were not found. disappeared without fail.
The 4th and 5th places with fixed prizes of 50,000 won and 5,000 won, respectively, had a much larger number of unclaimed cases.
In the fourth place, 120,662 cases were not received, and 6.033 billion won was returned to the fund.
In the fifth place, a whopping 5,926,944 cases were destroyed without an owner.
The prize money per case is 5,000 won, but the total is 29.635 billion won.
The winnings of the pension lottery and the printed lottery, which expired last year, were 4.385 billion won and 3.543 billion won, respectively.
The total amount of lottery, pension lottery, printed lottery, and electronic lottery prizes that disappeared last year was 49.245 billion won, which is 0.76% of last year's lottery ticket sales.