The new owner of Publishers Clearing House says it won’t pay a dime of the lifelong prizes promised to winners before July 2024 — leaving many scrambling to cover their bills.

ARB Interactive, the Miami-based gaming firm that bought PCH out of bankruptcy , said that under the terms of the sales agreement, past prize obligations won’t be honored and that only future winners will be paid.

John Wyllie, 61, of Bellingham, Wash., said he was promised $5,000 a week for life in 2012 but hasn’t received a payment this year — forcing him to sell possessions and hunt for a job after more than a decade out of the workforce. 4

“This feels like a nightmare. I thought this was going to go on for the rest of my life, so I didn’t really have to worry about money,” Wyllie told KGW-TV.

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