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Vassia Barba

Lottery winner who bagged $344m given less than HALF after controversial decision

A lottery winner is set to receive a lump sum payment of $140.6million (£113.1million), but, although life-changing, the pay-off amounts to less than half of what she actually won.

Lerynne West of Dexter, Iowa, was one of two winners of a nearly $700m (£563.2m) Powerball prize.

The 51-year-old would share the $687.8m (£553.4m) prize with the second winner, however, she ended up getting less than half of that as she had two options for receiving the money.

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