Bedfordshire winner in the January 2012 Premium Bonds jackpot draw
- A man living in Bedfordshire
- Bond Number: 59BW372041
- Winning Bond bought in March 1997
- Total holdings £23,200
There were 43,194,250,299 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. For the January 2012 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes, together amounting to over £53 million in value.
This brings the grand total of prizes since the first draw in June 1957, to 242.37 million and the value to £13.6 billion.
Prize and value breakdown in January 2012
| Value of prizes | Number of prizes |
|---|---|
| £1,000,000 | 1 |
| £100,000 | 4 |
| £50,000 | 10 |
| £25,000 | 18 |
| £10,000 | 44 |
| £5,000 | 90 |
| £1,000 | 1,079 |
| £500 | 3,237 |
| £100 | 31,734 |
| £50 | 31,734 |
| £25 | 1,731,809 |
| Total prize fund value £53,992,825 |
Total number of prizes 1,799,760 |
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 (http://www.nsandi.com/) , by telephone on 0500 500 000 (see note 4), by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches.
Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury.
Notes to editors
- All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax.
- The jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s 264th 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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