{"id":109123,"date":"2026-01-22T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:29:12","slug":"upstate-ny-woman-wins-1000-a-week-for-life-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109123\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate NY woman wins $1,000 a week for life lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TPLLHDHGJRGENKIYBVJBN2YUVU\">An Upstate New York woman has won a top prize on the New York Lottery\u2019s \u201cWin $1,000 A Week For Life\u201d scratch-off game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YPDX7P3LTFDW3N3YXBNIMG7MJE\">Joan Scites of Godeffroy (Orange County) purchased the winning ticket at O\u2019Dells Market, located in Cuddebackville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KO43JDEULNFKRPRY77FJUJGTWU\">The game comes with a guaranteed minimum payout of $1 million. She chose to receive the prize as a lump sum payment of $458,272 after required withholdings, rather than the annuity option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F2F6BWA5XJDH5MZPRDZNIA6DHY\">Seven top prizes remain available on this scratch-off game, according to lottery officials. Players can verify the status of any New York Lottery scratch-off game by accessing the Game Report on <a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/\">nylottery.ny.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RAKPP526LVFHBJXTCF2T63S2JA\">Scratch-off games generated $4.3 billion in total sales during the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Orange County school districts received $110.6 million in lottery aid to education funds during that same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upstate New York woman has won a top prize on the New York Lottery\u2019s \u201cWin $1,000 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[275,49068,9,11,839,10,49069,49070,122],"class_list":["post-109123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bodega","tag-losing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-lottery","tag-new-york-news","tag-outside","tag-promotion","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}