In 1967, New York Lottery as the third modern U.S lottery was initiated. The basic objective of the Lottery is to generate revenue for the public education in the New York State as a part of the Gaming Commission. In order to take part in this lottery program, the participant should be at least of age 18 years, however, the minimum age is 21 year for playing quick draw. A person, who qualifies the lottery, will be subject to the State income taxes and federal law. The local income taxes are also for both New York residents and Yonkers. All across the state, school students, winners, and businesses are getting benefits from the New York Lottery. Till to now the profit which has been accumulated from is the sale of New York Lottery ticket is up to $64 billion which is further contributed to K-12 public education funding.
You can play and take part in Lottery program if you are a legal resident of New York, but first, you have to get a subscription by going through the following instructions:
Subscription Process At NY Lottery:
- To get a subscription at its official site, launch a web browser and browse a link nylottery.ny.gov for accessing its official website.
- By accessing the official site, get an option, “Ways to play”. Click here to find out the different ways of playing in the lottery.
- Upon click on this option, you will be led to next page, where you will further see a link named as “Click here to subscribe now!” and move to next page for subscription process.
- On the next page, enter your email address or username and password for signing into an account.
- If you are newcomer then click on the option given below “Register” and follow the next page for completion of the process.
- Here you are required to provide your personal information like full name, date of birth, SSN and email address and enter Login information like username, password with confirmation and security questions
- In the last, enter a code, letter in the text box and finally click on “Continue” button by accepting terms & conditions.
Other Instructions:
If you are going to play the lottery for the first time then you are required to follow the above-mentioned instructions otherwise, you have to get login access for your already created account.