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NS&I will next week begin contacting the estates of deceased customers who, due to an error, were not repaid money from all of their NS&I accounts following a bereavement claim.Key measures put in place to support affected estates include:

Introduction On 26 March 2026, the Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell MP, informed the House of Commons that NS&I had identified an issue where the estates of deceased customers were not always repaid money from all of their accounts following a bereavement claim. These errors happened because the search process used when handling a bereavement claim failed to identify all NS&I products. The issue was resolved for current and new bereavement claims from January 2026 and…

Premium Bonds prize fund rate will be 3.80% from the July 2026 draw Odds are shortened to 22,000 to 1 for each £1 Premium Bond held Changes will deliver an estimated 322,000 extra prizes each month compared to May 2026, bringing the total amount paid out to some £

 May’s jackpot millionaires come from Suffolk and Highlands & Islands ERNIE has drawn more than five million prizes this month, worth over £376 million This month’s £1 million Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Suffolk and Scotland’s Highlands & Islands.

New Issues of fixed-term British Savings Bonds (Guaranteed Growth, and Guaranteed Income Bonds) go on sale today with increased interest rates Rates increased for all terms: 1, 2 ,3 and 5-year bonds 

Issue 8 of Green Savings Bonds has gone on sale today at a fixed-rate of 3.82% gross/AER over a three-year fixed-termMoney invested in Green Savings Bonds helps finance green projects as part of the UK Government Green Financing FrameworkFunding raised is outside of NS&I’s Net Financing target Green Savings Bonds hav

April's jackpot millionaires come from Hampshire & The Isle of Wight and Surrey ERNIE has drawn more than 5.9 million prizes this month, worth over £376 million This month’s £1 million Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Hampshire & The Isle of Wight and Surrey. 

NS&I has identified an issue where the estates of deceased customers were not always repaid money from all of their accounts following a bereavement claim.These errors happened because the search process used when handling a bereavement claim failed to identify all NS&I products. The issue has been resolved for current and new bereavement claims and robust measures have been introduced to ensure this does not happen again.

Q3 2025 Net Financing: £5.9 billionAs of 31 December 2025: Net Financing total of £9.9 billion, against a whole-year target of £13 billion (+/- £4 billion)2025–26 Net Financing whole-year forecast: £13.6 billion (excluding Green Savings Bonds)2026–27 Net Financing target: £15 bill

March’s £1 million jackpot winners come from Liverpool and NorfolkERNIE has drawn over six million prizes this month, worth more than £410 million78 Premium Bonds holders won a £100,000 prizeTwo Premium Bonds holders from Liverpool and Norfolk are celebrating an u