If you delay enrolling in Medicare, you can continue to stash cash in a health savings account. But this may not be a good move. By Kimberly LankfordSee my bio, plus links to all my recent stories.
Since tickets cost $2, the prize pool has to be at least ($2 x 175 million = ) $350 million before buying a Powerball ticket is what gamblers call a positive-expectation play â a bet that, statistically, will pay more than $1 for each $1 played.
There were three winning tickets for Wednesday's $1.5 billion Powerball -- by far the biggest U.S. lottery jackpot of all time. Jan. 13, 2015: The winning tickets were sold in Chino Hills, California; Munford, Tennessee; and in Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to state lottery officials.