Iowa Quaker Oats workers claim $241M Powerball pot
AP
Workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, react as their winning $241 million Powerball ticket is scanned at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, react as their winning $241 million Powerball ticket is scanned at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, step off the bus as they arrive to cash in their winning $241 million Powerball ticket at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer, right, greets workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as they arrive to cash in their winning $241 million Powerball ticket at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Attorney Joe Day, right, holds up the winning $241 million Powerball ticket before it is cashed in for his clients, a group of workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Attorney Joe Day holds up the winning $241 million Powerball ticket before it is cashed in for his clients, a group of workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Iowa Lottery headquarters, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A group of 20 workers at a Quaker Oats plant in Iowa stepped forward Wednesday to claim a $241 million Powerball jackpot.
Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the agency verified the winning ticket, which was sold June 13.
One of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group and the winnings will be split 20 ways, said Dan Morris, a spokesman for the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union that all the winners belong to in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Morris said the winners all are between 35 and 64 years old and work in the Quaker plant's shipping department.
The group took a chartered bus paid for by their union from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines on Wednesday to present their ticket to lottery officials.
"They're in shock. Still trying to recover," said Joe Day, the group's lawyer.
Day said the group had yet to decide what to do with the winnings, but described the winners as "ecstatic."
"Financial security for a lifetime," he said. "Anybody would want that."
The jackpot is the 15th largest won by Powerball players and, according to Neubauer, would amount to roughly $5.6 million per person after taxes if the group chooses the lump-sum cash option.
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