NEW
MILLIONAIRE FROM
LANCASHIRE IN
JULY’S JACKPOT
DRAW
- · Still over 1 million tax-free prizes awarded worth a total of over £33 million
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July’s Premium Bond millionaire
A man living in Lancashire
Bond Number: 138WC727458
Winning Bond bought in May 2008
Total holdings: £30,000
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In Lancashire, just over 510,500 people hold Premium Bonds worth over £890 million. There are over 10,300 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in total worth over £604,550. This is the 11th time that the £1 million jackpot has been won in Lancashire.
In March, NS&I announced that from the April prize draw onwards, one of the two monthly £1 million Premium Bond jackpot prizes would be replaced by a wider mix of other prizes in the monthly draws.
Similarly, a new £25 Premium Bonds prize has been introduced to the draws alongside the existing prizes (ranging from £50 to £1 million). These changes have been introduced because Premium Bond holders say that maintaining the chances of winning tax-free prizes on a regular basis is particularly important to them.
In July’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.1 million prizes, together amounting to more than £33 million in value. There were 40,569,597,098 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.
Prize and value breakdown in July 2009
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Value of prizes
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Number of prizes |
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£1,000,000 |
1 |
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£ 100,000 |
2 |
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£ 50,000 |
4 |
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£25,000 |
9 |
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£10,000 |
20 |
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£5,000 |
41 |
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£1,000 |
675 |
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£ 500 |
2,025 |
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£100 |
19,866 |
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£50 |
19,866 |
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£25 |
1,084,424 |
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Total prize fund value £33,808,000
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Total number of prizes 1,126,933 |
Premium Bond facts
The current Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 1.0% tax-free2. The current odds of each £1 Bond number winning any prize are 36,000 to 1, so with average luck, an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds could win 10 tax-free prizes a year. At the end of June 2009, over 23 million people had a total of over £40 billion invested in Premium Bonds.
Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007 (see note 5), by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches, and brochures can be picked up in WHSmith in 400 of its High Street stores and 155 of its travel stores.
Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from potentially winning tax-free prizes.
Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 191 million tax-free prizes worth over £12 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £25 to £1 million.
There are currently over 599,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £35 million. There is no time limit for claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by visiting www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker.
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