Lottery varieties are seen in August on the Presidente Supermarket within the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Officials stated Wednesday, Sept. 27, that the winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot in August has come ahead to say the prize.

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Lottery varieties are seen in August on the Presidente Supermarket within the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Officials stated Wednesday, Sept. 27, that the winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot in August has come ahead to say the prize.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The winner of final month’s $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot — the third-largest in U.S. historical past — has come ahead to say the prize, officers stated Wednesday.

In all, Mega Millions has had 5 prizes of greater than a billion {dollars}.

Under a brand new Florida legislation, the winner’s title stays nameless for 90 days from the date the prize was claimed, which was on Sept. 25, lottery officers stated in an e-mail. The lottery didn’t affirm whether or not the winner took the lump sum or the annuity, and didn’t specify the estimated lump sum quantity.

In Florida, winners have to say the lump sum inside 60 days of the drawing. They have as much as 180 days in the event that they select to go together with an annuity, which is paid out in 30 annual installments. The jackpot can be topic to federal taxes. There’s no state earnings tax in Florida.

The profitable ticket was offered at a Publix grocery store in Neptune Beach, a city alongside the Atlantic Coast close to Jacksonville. The profitable numbers on Aug. 8 have been 13, 19, 20, 32, 33 and the Mega Ball was 14.

The largest jackpot ever was a Powerball ticket in California value a whopping $2.04 billion from the drawing on Nov. 8, 2022. The subsequent largest was additionally a Powerball prize of $1.586 billion on Jan. 13, 2016. That prize was cut up amongst three profitable tickets offered in California, Florida and Tennessee.

Trailing the current Florida jackpot in third place, three different Mega Millions prizes have been the fourth, fifth and sixth largest jackpots.

A single particular person in South Carolina received $1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018, whereas $1.35 billion was won in Maine on Jan. 13, 2023, and $1.337 billion was received in Illinois on July 29, 2022.

The Maine winner collected the prize in February, and selected to stay nameless. The winner collected the money choice via a restricted legal responsibility firm, LaKoma Island Investments LLC, Maine State Lottery officers stated.

Historically, most grand prize winners have opted to obtain the prize as a one-time, lump sum cost, in line with the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Sometimes, winners do go for the annuity, together with the jackpot winner in Virginia from the March 4, 2023 drawing. That winner, whose title stays nameless underneath Virginia legislation, selected an annuity value $156.7 million to be paid out yearly.

Before that, the final time a Powerball winner opted for the annuity was in 2014.

Mega Millions is performed in 45 states in addition to Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.