FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno couple had to wait eight weeks to claim their $2,000 lottery prize from the California State Lottery.<\/p>\n
On March 13th, Nicholas Wilcken bought a $ 20 \u201cred carpet riches\u201d lottery scratch-off.<\/p>\n
Moments later, Nicholas and his wife Amanda, celebrated winning $2,000.<\/p>\n
Unlike your $10 \u2013 $50 wins, for prizes this big, you have to go to the local lottery office to cash it in.<\/p>\n
After winning on a Friday, Nicholas went to show his winning ticket the following Monday.<\/p>\n
The wait’s been frustrating and maddening.<\/p>\n
After multiple attempts to call, email, and even direct message.<\/p>\n
The California state lottery representative read their message, but the Wilckens did not receive any help.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the California State Lottery for the long wait.<\/p>\n
We received this response, where a spokesperson said they could not talk about prizes with third parties, but gave the information for the couple to use to contact them again.<\/p>\n
The same number they had been trying to use for weeks.<\/p>\n
After we contacted the California State Lottery, Nickolas Wilcken called again, but this time a representative answered with good news.<\/p>\n
His check is printed and is on the way.<\/p>\n
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Now, the Wilckens anxiously await to see if their check will arrive when promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno couple had to wait eight weeks to claim their $2,000 lottery prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-315557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}