{"id":322253,"date":"2026-11-06T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322253\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:44:19","slug":"unclaimed-pennsylvania-lottery-ticket-expires-on-dec-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322253\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclaimed Pennsylvania Lottery ticket expires on Dec. 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Shaler Township for the Cash 5 drawing on December 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p>SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A winning lottery ticket that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/giant-eagle-pennsylvania-lottery-allegheny-county\/69840040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sold at a Giant Eagle grocery store<\/a> nearly one year ago will expire soon if someone doesn&#8217;t come forward to claim the big prize.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">(Related video above: Lottery ticket wins $500,000 a year for life in Western Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Pennsylvania Lottery officials said the unclaimed ticket was purchased at Giant Eagle on Butler Plank Road in Shaler Township, Allegheny County.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The ticket is a $770,000 jackpot winner. It matched all five balls (11, 20, 31, 36, 38) in the Cash 5 with Quick Cash drawing from Dec. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Looking for more news in your area | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Lottery officials said the ticket must be claimed by Dec. 21, 2026. The claim can be filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palottery.pa.gov\/About-PA-Lottery\/How-to-Claim-Your-Prize.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">by mail<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palottery.pa.gov\/About-PA-Lottery\/Contact-Us.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a lottery office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;By law, unclaimed, expired lottery prizes remain in the Lottery Fund and are used to support programs benefiting older Pennsylvanians,&#8221; the lottery said in a statement. &#8220;Although some lotteries give players only 90 or 180 days to claim a prize, Pennsylvania Lottery Draw Game prizes may be claimed on a business day up to one year from the drawing date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Shaler Township for the Cash 5 drawing on December 21, 2025 SHALER&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60182,35784,1707,3787,4329,19193,13074,57680,62157,2080,130662,2092,28,30,2078,12142,29,7279,62159,1419,3791,10254,78],"class_list":["post-322253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-big-prize","tag-butler-plank-road","tag-cash","tag-cash-5","tag-day","tag-dec","tag-giant-eagle","tag-glenshaw","tag-lottery-fund","tag-lottery-ticket","tag-lottery-ticket-expiring","tag-more-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lottery","tag-pennsylvania-lottery-official","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-shaler-township","tag-unclaimed-pennsylvania-lottery-ticket","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-winning-ticket","tag-wtae","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}