Million Dollar Winning Powerball Ticket Sits Unclaimed In New York

There is a $1 million dollar lottery ticket, sold in New York, that remains unclaimed. As crazy as that seems, the bigger tragedy will be if the ticket expires before the winner can cash it in. Time is running out.

Remain calm, and start to think where any of your lottery tickets might be. Do you keep them in the glove box of the car? Maybe you left it in the junk drawer at your house. Come on man! What are you waiting for? You could have $1 million dollars sitting in your nightstand. Ok, ok, sorry, I did say remain calm.

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According to the New York Lottery, an unclaimed Powerball second prize-winning ticket, worth $1 million dollars, was sold at Village Grocery, located at 328 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY. This ticket must be claimed no later than September 1, 2026. The winning numbers for the September 1, 2025 Powerball draw were 08-23-25-40-53 + Powerball 05.

The Powerball second prize is won by matching the first 5 numbers without the Powerball number. Prizes may be claimed up to one year after the draw, which means both $1 million winners are running out of time to claim their prizes.

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What happens to the money on a ticket that is not claimed in time? For example, an unclaimed Powerball second prize-winning ticket was sold at in Manhattan almost missed the August 6, 2025 deadline.

So, what happens if you don't claim the prize by the deadline? That money is no longer legally yours to have. It's gone and there would be nothing worse than that feeling of knowing you could have had $1 million dollars but it's not yours due to lack of action. Don't let this happen to you.