Lottery adds more than $7 million to Mississippi’s treasury for October

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Monday, the Mississippi Lottery Corporation completed its October transfer of $7,069,979.17 in net proceeds to the Lottery Proceeds Fund in the Mississippi State Treasury. This brings the total transfer for fiscal year 2021, which began July 1, to $33,655,036.73.

In related news, this week the Mississippi Department of Transportation announced the additional awarding of funds to projects throughout the state. For a complete list of MDOT projects using lottery net proceeds, click here.

Total miles of lottery projects awarded through the end of October reached nearly 250 miles.