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Facts and figures

  1. 23 million people (almost 40% of the population) hold Premium Bonds

  2. Over 36 billion eligible Premium Bonds go into each monthly draw

  3. All Premium Bond prizes are free of UK income tax and Capital Gains tax

  4. Since the first Premium Bond prize draw in 1957, over 172 million tax free prizes worth over £11 billion have been given away. 

  5. The current Premium Bond prize fund rate is 3.40% p.a. tax-free

  6. The odds of each £1 unit winning a prize are fixed - currently at 22,000:1

  7. Every eligible Bond has a separate and equal chance of winning a prize, irrespective or when or where it was bought

  8. There are currently over 500,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes worth over £30 million

  9. There is no time limit to claim a prize

  10. You can check any unclaimed prizes and prizes won in the last six months by using the Have you won? facility.

  11. The largest unclaimed prize is for £25,000. We believe the winner emigrated to Canada, but all efforts to trace them have failed

  12. The monthly maximum prize - now £1 million - is a thousand times higher today than it was in 1957

  13. Premium Bonds sales have been greater in the last 6 years than in the previous 45 years put together

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