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These lottery payouts are structured, often over 20 years. If that's the case here, she would have received $50K/year for 20 years. After taxes, that's about $35K/year. (You are often given the choice of a one-time single payout, but it's much, much less than the stated amount.)

If she were juggling a lot of debt when she won, it's easily conceivable that she could have gone through her first payout very quickly and have been cash poor enough to warrant reliance on food stamps or other assistance, certainly in the first year after winning.

I'm sorry about her death. She was way too young, but that doesn't change the facts.

I know the lottery people report the prize to the IRS the same way one's employer reports wages.

I'm a good person. Really.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't admire the work She's done in creating the woman.

that had issues. Drugs seem to be a big problem for a lot of lottery winners proving that money alone doesn't make someone happy.

A good person better, and a bad person worse.

Not saying she was a bad person, but it seems she had some bad habits
May she find the peace in death, she didn't have in life,
Amen

It is up there with "entitlements" and other bizarre thoughts like people can pull them selves up by their bootstraps, and the republicans "we had no help from anyone" shit.

Has anyone EVER heard that no happiness from money from a poor person? Do people who have money ever give that awful stuff away to the point that they would be poor and happy?

I tip people huge, I give much more money than I should because I am short money, to homeless people or people that ask. I have wealthy friends that would not give a dime to a homeless person.

I told one that after he said no to a homeless person that asked, why not give that person money? Well, there were all kind of reasons. None good. I told him that maybe he should just give that person the money in his wallet, as he had plenty, and he could work his way to nirvana, no-money wise.