Unclaimed National Lottery and EuroMillions jackpots: are you a winner?

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Updated on 20 January 2016 | 0 Comments

Some life-changing lottery prizes remain unclaimed. Doublecheck your numbers.

Last week saw the UK’s biggest ever Lotto jackpot with £66 million up for grabs. After 14 rollovers the whopping prize was won by two ticket holders.

David and Carol Martin, both 54, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders immediately claimed their half of the jackpot but the other £33 million is still waiting to be claimed.

A Camelot spokesperson said a delay in claiming often happens: “We’ve had people come forward in the second week – that’s not uncommon – but we have no updates yet.”

So check your tickets carefully. The winning numbers were 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58. The winner has 180 days from the date of the draw to claim the prize, otherwise it will go to National Lottery charity projects.

Unclaimed £1 million prize

While you are checking your lottery ticket be sure to look at the Lotto Millionaire Raffle code at the bottom. Normally, a single £1 million prize is given out via the raffle each Saturday and Wednesday.

However on Boxing Day five winners were drawn as part of the Christmas celebrations. Of those five winners one has yet to come forward.

The winning ticket was bought in East Staffordshire. The winning code was PINK 6501 4846. The winner has until 23 June 2016 to claim their £1 million.

Check your numbers

There are currently millions of pounds of unclaimed lottery prizes. So, if you have some old tickets make sure to check them. You can quickly see if you are a winner by entering your Lotto numbers into its online results checker.

“A lot of times, the winner will tell us they just didn’t get around to checking the ticket, usually because of some event like moving house, or going on holiday,” says a Camelot spokesperson about late claims.

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