Maine Lawmakers Alarmed By Amount Of Welfare Money Spent On Lottery Tickets
The governor and lawmakers plan to revisit limits on how welfare recipients can spend their money following a report that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on lottery tickets.
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting based the estimate of money spent on $22.4 million in large prizes collected by welfare recipients between 2010 and 2014.
Those included eight jackpots worth at least $500,000 apiece.
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