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Press releaseNEW MILLIONAIRE FROM CLWYD IN NOVEMBER’S JACKPOT DRAW02 November 2009 November’s Premium Bond millionaire A man living in Clwyd1
Within Clwyd, over 146,000 people hold Premium Bonds worth over £239 million. November’s winner is only the 10th jackpot winner to come from Wales since the £1 million jackpot prize was introduced in 1994. November’s prize fund rate and odds NS&I announced in September that the Premium Bonds prize fund rate would increase to 1.5% from the October 2009 prize draw onwards. This has created an extra 500,000 Premium Bond prizes to be distributed in the monthly draw – with over 1.6 million tax-free2 prizes awarded. The odds of each individual Bond number winning a prize have also improved to 24,000 to 1 from 36,000 to 1. The number of prizes a Premium Bond holder with the maximum amount invested (£30,000) could win each year, with average luck, has also increased from 10 to 15, with the new odds. Unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes in Clwyd Overall, there are more than 620,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes worth over £36 million. Of these, over 2,500 unclaimed prizes worth over £147,000 are from holdings owned by customers in Clwyd. Three Clwyd residents are still due to receive £1,000 each after failing to claim their prizes in previous prize draws. NS&I have tried to trace these winners, but so far without success.
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. Premium Bond facts Premium Bonds are an investment where, instead of interest payments, investors have the chance to win tax-free prizes. They were officially launched by Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his 1956 budget. Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 500 000 (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. 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. At the end of July 2009, over 23 million people had a total of over £40 billion invested in Premium Bonds. Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 197 million tax–free prizes worth over £12 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £25 to £1 million. Look out for further information on this big win, together with details of other tax-free2 prizes, which will be issued on the first working day of the month. Sometimes winners of the Premium Bond jackpot provide a quote, if so this will also be available on the first working day of the month. ENDS Notes to Editors 1. The preserved county of Clwyd is made up of administrative counties: Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conwy and Wrexham. 2. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax. 3. The lucky jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s 238th Premium Bond millionaire. 4. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and people buying Premium Bonds are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team. 5. Free phone number – calls from mobiles may be chargeable. Telephone calls may be recorded. 6. Further information on NS&I (National Savings and Investments), including press releases and product information, is available on the website at www.nsandi.com. You can also contact the NS&I media team. 7. 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. 8. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced media team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
Media team The numbers below are for media use only. Customers wishing to contact NS&I can find details here.
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