Unclaimed National Lottery Tickets

10th November 2008 11:53 AM

Keep your National Lottery ticket in a safe place, that’s the advice from lottery officials as unclaimed National Lottery tickets top £1 million. When you play the National Lottery and win a prize you have 180 days to claim that winning ticket before your prize is forfeited.

It’s not a long time really and many people buy lottery tickets then put their ticket to one side, scrunched up with till receipts or in a long forgotten jacket pocket. Maybe if you knew a £9.4 million lottery prize was forfeited by being lost in February 2006 you might look after those tickets a little better.

	UK National Lottery (UK)
	UK National Lottery (Outside UK)

The £9.4 million was the largest forfeited prize in the UK National Lottery yet at present there is a £450,000 prize waiting to be claimed within the 180 day deadline and over £1 million total in unclaimed National Lottery prizes from across the UK.

Of course the easiest way to ensure you never lose your National Lottery ticket is to click our links and play the National Lottery through the official website, the National Lottery will let you know by email if you win and you can play weeks in advance to ensure you never lose another lottery ticket. All your details are kept safe online and you cannot possibly miss out on a big win because you know that the official National Lottery website are looking after your tickets.

This week there’s even more reason to ensure you keep your tickets safe as Wednesdays draw is a rollover with an estimated jackpot of £7.5 million. Good Luck!
 

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