A Monsey woman is celebrating a life-changing windfall after winning the grand prize in the New York Lottery's "Set for Life" game, on a ten dollar ticket purchased in Spring Valley, New York.
Henya Fried recently claimed the top prize, which offers winners the choice between five thousand dollars a week for life or a one-time lump sum of approximately 3.46 million dollars before taxes. According to documents from the New York State Lottery, the annuity option pays 260,000 dollars a year before taxes for the first twenty years, with the weekly payments continuing for the rest of the winner's life if she is still living after that period.
Mrs. Fried is the wife of Meir Fried, a well known baal chesed and the customer service manager at Rockland Kosher Supermarket, a detail that has made the win feel like a shared simcha across the Monsey community rather than just a private stroke of luck.
