Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, who won $2.04 billion Powerball lottery Nov. 7, 2022, opted for the lump sum, which was just shy of $1 billion.

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and she wasn’t very complimentary of the world’s top 1%, or those who stand up for them. “If you defend billionaires, you don’t know how much one billion is,” she said. “You don’t understand how big that number is. And that’s okay.

The surplus will be returned to taxpayers through a credit on their 2025 state personal income tax returns filed in 2026.