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October’s Premium Bonds millionaires come from Greater Manchester and West Scotland This month’s Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Greater Manchester and West Scotland. Including the two £1 million jackpot winners, there are more than five million prizes worth over £470 million in total that will be paid out to winners.

September’s new Premium Bonds millionaires come from Norwich; and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in a month where the prize fund rate increased. The September Premium Bonds draw was at the new higher prize fund rate of 4.65% – the highest it has been since 1999. The odds improved from 22,000 to 1 to 21,000 to 1. With the change in odds, Premium Bonds holders will see over £65 million added to the prize fund this month.

 

  NS&I delivered £2.1 billion of Net Financing to the Government in Q1 2023-24. The figure is part of NS&I’s latest unaudited quarterly results for the first quarter (April-June 2023) of the financial year 2023-24. The Spring Budget in March 2023 set NS&I’s Net Financing target for 2023-24 at £7.5 billion (+/- £3 billion). NS&I Chief Executive, Dax Harkins, said: “I’m pleased that we were able to deliver £2.1 billion of Net Financing to the Government in the first…

 

This month’s Premium Bonds jackpot winners come from Hereford & Worcester and Essex. The August draw saw the prize fund rate increase to 4%, and the odds improve from 24,000 to 1 to 22,000 to 1, meaning that each £1 Bond now has its best chance of winning a prize in almost 15 years. This month also saw an extra £30 million added to the prize fund, with 455,390 extra prizes available for Bond holders to win. A prize fund of more than £404 million will be paid out to winners across the…

NS&I delivered £10.0 billion of Net Financing to the Government in 2022-23. Interest rate increases: NS&I supported savers with a series of interest rate increases across its products in 2022-23, including five increases to the Premium Bonds prize fund rate, meaning that by March 2023, 1.6 million more prizes were being paid out each month than a year earlier. Transforming NS&I: further progress in the delivery of the transfo

Premium Bonds prize fund rate to increase to 3.70%, its highest rate in 15 years Junior ISA interest rate increased to 3.65%, benefitting 89,000 young savers The Premium Bonds prize fund rate will reach a 15-year high from the July prize draw, with NS&I announcing that it will increase to 3.70% from 3.30%. The changes will see an additional £39 million in prizes available for Bondholders.

  In the month that marks 66 years since the first Premium Bonds prize draw on 1 June 1957, this month’s Premium Bonds winners come from Essex and South Gloucestershire. Since that first draw in 1957, over 626 million prizes worth £26 billion have been paid out. This month, the first Bond number drawn was 083TX260795 and is held by a winner based in Essex. The winner holds £42,050 in Premium Bonds and purchased their winning Bond in July 2005. This win makes them the twenty-first…