It created a lot of challenges from the standpoint of the casinos were running, not necessarily shutdown over the last year, but with restrictions that kept them from having a full amount of people on the floor,” he said. “We still met the goal with the pandemic in place. He also said on the net revenue side, the lottery fund finished $17 million above projections and the excess funds were $52 million over projections for the fiscal year.Ĭommission members called the lottery revenue numbers “impressive” and “heck of an accomplishment.” Myers agreed because of the past year happening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Myers said the lottery projected a total of $983 million for the year. This year we ended up at $1.17 billion,” Myers told MetroNews. “Each year we set a goal to exceed one billion dollars in total sales for the lottery. The West Virginia Lottery exceeded its sales goal for the fiscal year 2020-2021 despite casinos taking a hit due to COVID-19.ĭuring Tuesday’s monthly lottery commission meeting, state Lottery Director John Myers reported that the lottery finished with a total revenue of just under $1.2 billion from July of last year to June 30.

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