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For the August 2013 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes, together amounting to over £49 million in value. There were 45,922,007,994 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

NS&I today announced that it was reducing the annual Premium Bond prize fund rate by 0.20% to 1.30%1 from 1 August 2013. The odds of each £1 Bond number winning a prize will change to 26,000 to 1 from 24,000 to 1.

For the July 2013 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.9 million prizes, together amounting to over £57 million in value. There were 45,679,465,864 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

NS&I today announced that it was reducing the interest rate on its Income Bonds to 1.25%, its Direct Saver to 1.1% and its Direct ISA to 1.75%.

There has been an increase in the number of people who will use at least some of their annual ISA allowance, according to new research from NS&I.

For the June 2013 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £56 million in value. There were 45,431,015,289 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

On 25 May 2013, the NS&I Cash ISA and T Cash ISA (formerly TESSA-only ISA) closed and any customers who still had money invested were automatically transferred to our Direct ISA.

NS&I is undertaking a nationwide search to help track down the winners of over 898,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £44 million in total.

Agent Million discusses their unique job on NS&I’s new YouTube channel  This month, NS&I’s Agent Million, who is responsible for personally delivering the good news each month to the Premium Bonds jackpot winner, distributed the 280th £1 million prize to a man from Cumbria with £30,000 invested.

On 6 April 2013 we made some changes to how NS&I Income Bonds work. The changes are part of our plans to make our range of savings and investments simpler and more modern.