The Hoosier Lottery expects to deliver about $341 million to the state this year — the lowest amount in the last five years.
Lottery revenue helps teacher, police and firefighter pensions and reduces the cost of license plates at the BMV.
Revenue for the fiscal year that just ended in June is down about 6 percent from the previous year. But Lottery Executive Director Sarah Taylor said it’s also in line with where the lottery expected to be.
She said it’s not time to panic.
“We’re still pretty optimistic that the big jackpots can maybe deliver some special wins this year to us and we’ve also got some good product to put out,” Taylor said.