Staffordshire winner in April's Premium Bonds draw
April's Premium Bond millionaire
- A woman living in Staffordshire
- Bond Number: 85WP097339
- Winning Bond bought in March 1999
- Total holdings £30,000
In Staffordshire there are 348,156 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £566 million.
For the April 2012 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £54 million in value. There were 43,475,092,776 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.
Premium Bonds prizes and value breakdown in April 2012
| Value of prizes | Number of prizes |
|---|---|
| £1,000,000 | 1 |
| £100,000 | 5 |
| £50,000 | 8 |
| £25,000 | 18 |
| £10,000 | 46 |
| £5,000 | 90 |
| £1,000 | 1,087 |
| £500 | 3,261 |
| £100 | 31,927 |
| £50 | 31,927 |
| £25 | 1,743,093 |
| Total prize fund value £54,343,875 |
Total number of prizes 1,811,463 |
Unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes
In total there are over 799,000 unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes worth more than £41 million.
In Staffordshire, over 7,200 prizes worth more than £400,000 still remain unclaimed.
There is a man from the region who is still due to receive £10,000 after failing to claim his prize in a previous draw. He has only £20 invested in Premium Bonds and the prize was won in February 2001.
There are a number of other unclaimed prizes due to the residents of the region, the oldest of these outstanding prizes having been drawn in July 1960.
Some of the top unclaimed prizes in Staffordshire
| Winning Bond number | Gender | Month and year of draw | Current holding | Prize value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11KB156268 | Male | Feb-01 | £20 | £10,000 |
| 49JN635118 | Female | Aug-07 | £20,000 | £10,000 |
| 37ZM650663 | Female | Aug-09 | £400 | £5,000 |
| 2DT995490 | Male | Mar-81 | £17 | £1,000 |
| 7PF871797 | Male | Sep-84 | £107 | £1,000 |
Some of the oldest unclaimed prizes in Staffordshire
| Winning Bond number | Gender | Month and year of draw | Current holding | Prize value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK864669 | Male | Jul-60 | £1 | £25 |
| DF559057 | Male | Jun-63 | £4 | £50 |
| SB547275 | Male | Oct-64 | £80 | £25 |
| KP884270 | Female | Dec-68 | £10 | £25 |
| SB547223 | Male | Jul-69 | £80 | £100 |
There is no time limit for claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by visiting nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker on the homepage.
April 2012’s prize fund rate and odds
The Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 1.5% and the odds of each individual Bond number winning a prize are 24,000 to 1.
Premium Bond facts
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 nsandi.com , by telephone on 0500 500 000, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches. Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from potentially winning tax-freeprizes.
As at March 2012, customers have over 22 million holdings in Premium Bonds totalling more than £43 billion. Prizes range from £25 to £1 million.
Premium Bonds online
Savers can now manage their Premium Bonds online, and opt to have any Premium Bonds prizes won paid directly into their bank accounts by BACS, with notification by email.
Savers can also:
- view their holding in full, with a record of prizes won
- opt to automatically reinvest prizes
- opt to stop receiving paper confirmation for transactions,
- update their personal details – address, bank details etc.
- buy and cash in Bonds
Notes to editors
- All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax.
- The jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s 267th Premium Bond millionaire.
- Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and people buying Premium Bonds are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team.
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