Overview

• The teacher received multiple scratch-off tickets as thank-you gifts from parents at the end of the school year in June.
• Those tickets sat in the teacher’s car for weeks during summer break before being checked.
• Upon scratching a $10 The Shore Thing ticket, the educator discovered a $500,000 top-prize win.
• The teacher described the windfall as life changing and noted that their puppy could have eaten the tickets.
• New Jersey Lottery officials said 30 cents of every lottery dollar supports state pensions, contributing over $8 billion since fiscal year 2018.