Media centre /
Press release
SEPTEMBER’S £1 MILLION PREMIUM BONDS JACKPOT WINNING NUMBERS
03 September 2007
Over 1.7 million other tax-free* prizes worth over £117m also awarded
|
Number 1
A lady living in Kent
Bond number: 71VS076267
Winning Bond bought in June 2000
Total holdings: £3,455 |
Number 2
A man living in Shropshire
Bond number: 129ZL912413
Winning Bond bought in July 2007
Total holdings: £25,100 |
Celebrating Premium Bonds holders
The winners from Kent and Shropshire have chosen to remain anonymous.
In Kent nearly 800,000 people own Premium Bonds worth over £1.2 billion. There are over 11,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes worth £668,000. This is the eighth time the Premium Bonds jackpot has been won in Kent. In Shropshire nearly 165,000 people own Premium Bonds worth over £252 million. There are over 1,800 unclaimed prizes in Shropshire, worth over £105,000. It is the first time that the jackpot has been won in the county.
In September’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes worth more than £119 million.
Value and number of prizes awarded in September 2007
£1 million 2
£100,000 20
£50,000 39
£25,000 80
£10,000 198
£5,000 396
£1,000 4,763
£500 14,289
£100 223,939
£50 1,457,526
Prize value Number of prizes
£119,087,700 1,701,252
Premium Bond Facts
The Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 4.00% tax-free. The odds of winning any prize are 21,000 to 1, with average luck, an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds can expect to win 17 tax-free2 prizes a year.
23 million people have more than £36 billion invested in Premium Bonds.
Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007*, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches.
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 winning tax-free2 prizes.
Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 159.03 million tax-free2 prizes worth £10.2 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million.
There is currently almost £29 million in unclaimed prizes. There is no time limit on claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by logging on to www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
*Call charges from a BT landline are free. Charges from other service providers will vary.
1. The lucky jackpot winners become ERNIE’s 193rd and 194th Premium Bond millionaires
2. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK income Tax and Capital Gains tax.
3. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and buying Premium Bonds online are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team.
4. Further information on National Savings and Investments (NS&I), including press releases and product information, is available on the website at www.nsandi.com. You can also contact the NS&I media team.
5. Subscribe to the NS&I RSS newsfeed. Simply copy and paste this link www.nsandi.com/mediacentre.xml into your RSS reader to receive regular news alerts from NS&I.
6. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
Media team
NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
The numbers below are for media use only.
Customers
wishing to contact NS&I can find details here.
Back to top
