£3.6m Set For Life Winner Rues Not Making Formal Agreement

Just because your name is on one of those huge lottery cheques doesn’t always assure you of long-term financial security. Kirk Stevens from Hucknall in Nottinghamshire, England has discovered that after a £3.6m Set For Life win last year.

It was Kirk and his then partner Laura Hoyle who won a fantastic £10,000 a month for the next 30 years. However, the pair have now split up and Laura has taken the win with her. The fact she’s moved into the luxury home they had planned on sharing has added to his misery. He’s now worried she’ll take their two dogs too.

When Laura moved in with Kirk in 2018, he didn’t charge her any rent. Instead, she agreed to buy £25 a week on lottery tickets, promising any wins would be shared. However, with no formal agreement made, that’s now left Kirk in trouble.

Laura had been making monthly payments of £1,000 to her ex. Now those have ended too and she says that was just rent money not related to the Set For Life win.

Just 10%

Kirk is now scared that he hasn’t just lost his girlfriend but his share of the Set For Life win. He is asking for 10% of the winnings if that £1,000 a month can resume. “I’ll happily walk away. She won’t even notice it,” says the upset Kirk.

Make a formal agreement

This shows the need for a formal agreement to be made. The National Lottery says that jackpots are paid to an individual and usually that is the person making the purchase. In this case, that’s Laura not Kirk.

Questions will be asked that ensure the rightful winner receives the payment. That’s not always easy but is much quicker to find out if the ticket was purchased online. This Set For Life win may have had the names of Laura and Kirk on the huge cheque but that’s not the real one. Without a formal agreement, Kirk looks like losing out.

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