Wisconsin
Best Wisconsin Lottery odds: Claim your property tax relief
MILWAUKEE – Do you know there’s a option to get cash from the Wisconsin Lottery with out profitable? You don’t even have to purchase a ticket.
You don’t want to select numbers, scratch playing cards or match any symbols to get the cash.
The truth is, when you personal a house in Wisconsin, you’re probably entitled to some hundred {dollars} a yr. That’s as a result of each time a lottery ticket is offered within the state, a portion of that sale is put aside for owners.
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When Wisconsin legalized the lottery in 1987, a part of that invoice mentioned proceeds had to assist pay house owner property taxes.
“The [credit] vary for 2022 was from about $150 to about $300, relying on the place you lived,” mentioned Teri Jacobson, Kenosha County treasurer. “It varies relying in your faculty district.”
Wisconsin invoice that legalized the lottery in 1987
Nonetheless, Jacobson says owners don’t mechanically get the credit score. They’ve to use first. You possibly can test whether or not you’re getting the credit score in your property tax invoice. It’s listed because the Lottery and Gaming Credit score.
“The easiest way [to find out] is to have a look at your property tax invoice,” mentioned Jacobson. “You probably have a quantity that’s greater than zero, you’re getting the lottery credit score.”
In case your property tax invoice exhibits a clean area on the Lottery and Gaming Credit score line, then you definitely’re not getting the credit score.
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In case you personal a Wisconsin property that’s additionally your main residence, you probably qualify. You will discover the applying on the Division of Income’s web site or at your county treasurer’s workplace.
In Kenosha County, you possibly can test whether or not you’re receiving the credit score on-line.
“We are saying each time somebody wins [the lottery], each Wisconsinite advantages as a result of it’s simply extra money that goes into this property tax credit score,” mentioned Peter Barca, secretary of the Division of Income (DOR).
In 2022, the DOR stories $320 million went towards the Lottery and Gaming Credit score in Wisconsin. The common house owner acquired a credit score of $213. In Milwaukee County, the common credit score was $242.
“It goes up and down, relying on how a lot cash the lottery is ready to accumulate,” mentioned Barca.
Michael Reiter in Mukwonago wrote to Contact 6 after studying he’d stopped getting the credit score in 2017. Reiter needed to remind FOX6 viewers to test their property tax payments for the Lottery and Gaming Credit score yearly.
“In case you’re entitled to it, you must get it,” mentioned Reiter.
As Reiter discovered, some circumstances aren’t minimize and dry as as to whether the house owner qualifies, like cellular houses or properties positioned in a belief. Reiter has a Life Property, which lists his three kids on the title, as a part of his property planning. The Waukesha County treasurer initially mentioned he didn’t qualify as a result of his youngsters don’t reside in his house.
“We’re simply making an attempt to make it simpler for the children and make it tougher for us,” mentioned Reiter.
Reiter reapplied for the credit score and was permitted. In February, he acquired a late 2022 Lottery and Gaming Credit score test for $182.
On the time he met Contact 6, Reiter hadn’t cashed the test but as a result of the Waukesha County treasurer initially mentioned it was despatched in error. After exchanging emails with the treasurer, Contact 6 was capable of affirm that Reiter does qualify for the Lottery and Gaming Credit score. Reiter will obtain the credit score on his tax invoice going ahead.
The Kenosha County treasurer says more often than not, figuring out a house owner’s eligibility is easy.
“In 90, 95% of the circumstances, it’s fairly easy,” mentioned Jacobson. “You personal your own home, you reside at your own home, you’re attributable to have a lottery credit score.”
Wisconsin owners can nonetheless declare final yr’s Lottery and Gaming credit score by filling out an software by Oct. 1 right here.
The DOR has an inventory of continuously requested questions concerning the Lottery and Gaming Credit score on-line.
Wisconsin
What should passengers off a jet in Wisconsin be handed, like the lei in Hawaii?
Our political blowhard, Adam Murphy, joins to answer the toughest question: What should we hand to people landing in Wisconsin, like getting a lei off the jet in Hawaii? We also discussed the less-than-half effort from Republicans in the state Legislature to overturn vetoes, plus WIZM on Reddit.
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Got some great answers from Murphy and callers to that question and spent a good part of the show discussing it.
We also hit on Republicans in the state Legislature (17:30) calling themselves back into session — the Legislature has been off since mid-March and wasn’t coming back into session until next year, after the elections — to try and override 36 of Gov. Tony Evers’ vetoes. You’ll be surprised at how big a failure that was.
Ended the show (33:00) talking about a post on Reddit about WIZM comments and whether or not they should be “moderated” or deleted. We did not have time to get to the part where someone said I was middle-left in political leaning.
Murphy has degrees in economics and political science from UW-Milwaukee. He’s also owns a small business, called Big Bang LLC in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Superior honors its graduates
SUPERIOR — The University of Wisconsin-Superior class of 2024 was recognized Saturday, May 18 at Siinto S. Wessman Arena.
According to UWS, more than 650 students from 33 different countries were eligible to receive diplomas for Saturday’s commencement ceremony — including 437 bachelor’s degrees and 198 master’s degrees. There also were 46 undergraduate students with double majors.
Graduating students included 218 first-generation students. The oldest graduate is 72 years old and the youngest is 20.
Chancellor Renée Wachter presided over the ceremony and presented diplomas to students who earned associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin Republican leader says party may need to embrace absentee ballot drop boxes
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Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON – The leader of the Wisconsin Republican Party is not ruling out urging voters to utilize absentee ballot drop boxes during the fall presidential election even as Republicans are in court seeking to stop their use.
Republican Party of Wisconsin chairman Brian Schimming said twice this week he will urge Republicans to take advantage of all forms of voting, including returning ballots to drop boxes, if the state Supreme Court overturns a ban on the use of drop boxes in a case the liberal-controlled court will likely decide in the coming weeks.
“I have spoken nationally, in the state, and at local levels about the need for Republicans to be realistic and if the state law that affects this election says we’ll have drop boxes or we end up with ballot harvesting, we’re going to do what it takes to win,” Schimming told reporters Saturday at the state GOP convention in Appleton. “All I can tell you as chairman is I’m not going to leave any potential advantage that we might have on the table. Period.”
Earlier this week, Schimming also said in an interview with WisconsinEye he is “not going to sit around and leave tools on the table.”
“You have to deal with reality when you’re state chair,” he said in the WisconsinEye interview. “I can see a situation where we have to deal with a change in state law on drop boxes … but we’ll be ready for all that.”
Schimming’s comments come as the state GOP and Republican National Committee have urged justices on the state Supreme Court not to overturn the court’s previous ruling banning the use of ballot drop boxes that are not inside election clerks’ offices.
“There is no justification here — special or not. Voters must deliver their absentee ballots in one of twoways: by mail or in person, to the municipal clerk. Drop boxes do neither,” attorneys for the state and national GOP wrote in a brief to the court as part of the lawsuit under review.
“Like anything of value, elections are targets for malicious actors. Even if fraud is rare, it is still a threat. And because elections are the very essence of our democracy, it is essential that people perceive them to be run according to the highest standard of integrity,” the attorneys wrote.
“Short-circuiting those safeguards — and imposing a novel drop-box requirement that the Legislature never enacted, the Governor never signed, and the voters never ratified — would contravene the manifest purpose of the statute.”
Supporters of drop boxes say clerks have wide discretion over what tools should be used to administer elections in their communities, noting drop boxes had been in use for decades leading up to a 2022 court decision that banned them. Liberal justices on the court questions the conclusion the former conservative majority reached in its 2022 decision.
Wisconsin Republicans have struggled to project a clear message on absentee voting since former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP presidential candidate, sought to sow distrust in his election loss in 2020 by blasting the safety of mail-in voting.
Schimming has for months sought to create a public campaign to the party faithful to embrace absentee voting in order to combat Democratic turnout. But at the same time, Trump continues to argue against the idea in visits to the state. During a rally in Waukesha earlier this month and in an interview this week with a local TV reporter, Trump said he his preferred voting strategy is one-day voting with paper ballots.
In an interview with the Journal Sentinel earlier this month, Trump did not commit to accepting the results of the election.
Schimming and the state’s top elected Republican, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, urged supporters of Trump at Trump’s April rally in Green Bay to also embrace early voting — a form of absentee voting that Democrats have heavily promoted in recent elections.
But when Trump took the stage at a rally in Green Bay, he again sought to dampen trust in the state’s election system by promoting the false claim that he would have won the presidential contest in Wisconsin 2020 if it had not been for election malfeasance driven by absentee voting in Milwaukee.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, a Republican from Janesville who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, conveyed a different message during Saturday’s state GOP convention, however.
“If we want to win, if we want to win as Republicans and as conservatives, we need to use every legal tool in the toolkit to get the job done. And that’s going to require people going out, voting early, banking the vote, and driving out the turnout in the state of Wisconsin,” Steil said.
Molly Beck can be reached at molly.beck@jrn.com.
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