Earlier this year, Brenda Aubin-Vega, a 20-year-old girl from Montreal, Canada, scratched out the three little piggy bank pattern on the lottery ticket.Won the game's top prize of $1 million CAD. "I couldn't believe my eyes! I checked the ticket over and over again and took a day off to digest the news," she said as she collected her prize at Lottery Quebec.
Brenda bought a scratch-off lottery ticket worth 4 Canadian dollars. The probability of winning the jackpot is only 1/1.5 million. According to the regulations of the Quebec Lottery Company (Loto-Québec), she has two options for redeeming the prize:
Receive a one-time payment of CAD 1 million (approximately 5.32 million RMB), tax-free; receive CAD 1,000 per week until the end of life.
Brenda Aubin-Vega chose to receive lifetime benefits because she wanted to achieve long-term financial security and her dream of buying a home.She believes that this kind of continuous and stable cash flow can help her plan her future life better than a large one-time bonus..
Calculation shows that if you receive 1,000 yuan per week, you can accumulate 1 million Canadian dollars after 19 years. If you invest 1,000 Canadian dollars per week, based on an annual return rate of 5%, you can accumulate to 1 million Canadian dollars in about 13 years, and up to 2 million Canadian dollars in 21 years.
It is worth mentioning thatThe store where Brenda purchased her ticket also received a $10,000 commission as a commission for selling the winning ticket..
