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For the February 2015 draw, ERNIE paid out over 2 million prizes, together amounting to over £59 million in value. There were 52,740,842,189 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. This brings the grand total of prizes since the first draw in June 1957, to 310 million and the value of those prizes to £15.6 billion.

The new 65+ Bonds, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the March 2014 Budget, have been launched today and are now on sale at nsandi.com, by phone on 0500 500 000 and by post.

A female from Leeds who holds only £400 in Premium Bonds has won the jackpot prize in the first draw of the New Year. The maximum holding limit is £40,000.

Almost eight in ten people surveyed by National Savings and Investments (NS&I) admitted to spending more money than they might otherwise have done because of being tempted by the prospect of saving money.

NS&I today published its un-audited quarterly results for the second quarter (July-September 2014) of the financial year 2014-15.

This month – for the first time ever – NS&I has paid out over two million prizes, worth more than £58 million.

Across the UK over 928,000 Premium Bonds prizes worth over £41 million remain unclaimed.

This month a Premium Bond bought in September 2014 won one of the two £1 million jackpot prizes, in its first eligible draw.

Almost half a million pounds worth of Premium Bonds prizes – including one for £100,000 – remain unclaimed from NS&I customers based in Australia.

Over three million pounds of Premium Bonds prizes –including one for £100,000 – remain unclaimed from NS&I customers based overseas.