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Press releaseNOVEMBER’S £1 MILLION PREMIUM BONDS JACKPOT DRAW03 November 2009
The male winner from Clwyd asked to keep his identity a secret, though went on the record to say: "I can't believe I've won the jackpot prize! It's an incredible feeling to be the recipient of such a large sum of money and I'm really excited at the prospect of being able to treat my family to some new life experiences." In November’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.6 million prizes, together amounting to more than £50 million in value. There were 40,439,578,484 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. 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 this month, making the number of high value prizes (£5,000 to £100,000) paid in November nearly double the number of high value prizes awarded in September before the rate increased. Prize and value breakdown in November 2009
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. 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. ENDS Notes to Editors 1. The preserved county of Clwyd is made up of administrative counties: Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conwy and Wrexham. 2. The November jackpot winner from Clwyd wishes to remain anonymous. 3. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax. 4. The lucky jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s 238th Premium Bond millionaire. 5. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and people buying Premium Bonds are available i
n high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team. 6. Free phone number – calls from mobiles may be chargeable. Telephone calls may be recorded. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced media team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
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