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

Through his four generations ERNIE has been allocating prizes since 1957 and making millionaires since 1994. This month NS&I paid its 300th £1 million jackpot prize.

In July NS&I increased the Premium Bonds investment limit from £30,000 to £40,000, and added a second £1 million jackpot prize to the draw. Therefore, since last month ERNIE now makes two lucky millionaires every month.

In the 2014 Budget the Chancellor announced that NS&I would help support savers by increasing the Premium Bonds investment limit from £30,000 to £40,000, and by adding a second £1 million jackpot prize to the draw. Therefore, for the first time since March 2009, this month ERNIE has made two lucky millionaires!

Following the announcement in the 2014 Budget that NS&I would help support savers by increasing the Premium Bonds investment limit to £40,000, and increase the number of £1 million prizes from one to two, NS&I has announced that the Premium Bonds annual prize fund rate will increase from 1.30% to 1.35% from 1 August 2014.

For the July 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value.

From 1 July 2014, savers will be able to take advantage of the government’s increase to ISA limits announced in the March Budget.

For the June 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,842,567,640 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In Kent there are over 685,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £1.7 billion.

From Sunday 1 June 2014 the amount that customers can invest in Premium Bonds will increase to £40,000, up from the current maximum of £30,000. As customers increase their investment above £30,000, it will give them more chances to win tax-free prizes from ERNIE.

For the May 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,646,439,503 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In Gloucestershire there are over 250,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £600 million.