Question of the Day 2020-10-24

With the shutdown of the Nevada DMV for almost three months, their backlog of expired driver’s licenses is 75,000 (according to today’s Review-Journal). The DMV has given an extension for renewal until November 12th.But I have heard that if you win a taxable jackpot at a NV casino, the casino can refuse payout with an expired driver’s license. Is this true?

There are many things you can’t do without a current Nevada driver’s license or ID: vote, board a plane, and (obviously) drive. But your jackpot shouldn't be in jeopardy.

The industry won’t go on the record about it, but none of our spies reports denials of jackpots that are related to expired drivers licenses.

A reliable casino source says, “Understanding that it can be difficult to get licenses renewed right now, we do allow a patron to provide us with an expired license to claim a jackpot – assuming the state provides a grace period for expired licenses. In Nevada, the current guidance from the DMV is that drivers whose licenses expired starting on March 12 have until November 12 to get them renewed. So if your license expired within that window, we would accept it for jackpot reporting purposes – but only until the grace period expires on November 12.”

And even then, if you can show only an expired license, all is not lost: “If your license expired outside of that window, it isn’t valid for claiming a jackpot. However, you won’t lose the jackpot. It's simply kept on hold for you at the cashier’s cage, until you're able to return with valid identification and claim it.”

You can renew your license online. And you can show some other form of picture ID: a valid passport is the most common, but a state-issued or military ID is also accepted.

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Don the Dentist Oct-24-2020

Passport

My wife uses her passport until her driver's license is renewed. She renewed online and is still waiting for her new license.

Roy Furukawa Oct-24-2020

Passport

Most people also have a passport or even better, a passport card which is easier to carry since it's the size of a driver license. For those not familiar with the passport card, it's only good for crossing borders with Canada and Mexico, but is also a valid federal ID.

Oct-24-2020

about REAL ID

To save some folks aggravation & wasted time & effort, I'll address REAL ID. We were told that as of this month we need a REAL ID card if we want to fly on an airline flight. Here in CA the DMV online info says we can upload our required documents to the Website but we still need to bring them to the office. More important, we can't do the application online; we have to fill it out on paper and bring it to the office. My driver's license was set to expire last month, so I went there in person to get the REAL ID (it would serve as my DL). After getting in line & then getting no help from an obnoxious lady, a nice lady showed up and told me that (1) they could not issue anything at the moment because the fires had shut down their computers, and (2) the deadline for REAL ID had been extended to 10/2021. The Website did not say they needed a vision test, so I didn't bring my glasses; I was dismayed when the test was announced. But miraculously, I passed the vision test without them.

Question of the Day - 24 October 2020

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