December Premium Bonds: Did you win?
Think you might be in for a bit of Christmas luck with the Premium Bonds? Well you can find out if you won the jackpot right here!
This month saw another two millionaires announced, read on to find out if one of them was you!
A man living in Cumbria with a total holdings of £27,590 won the first million, his winning bond number was 225EP035620 and it was bought in June 2014.
The second millionaire to be announced was a woman living in Bedfordshire. Her winning bond number was 117TJ752915 and she bought it in October 2006. She has a total holdings of £38,600.
Value of prize | Number of prizes |
£1,000,000 | 2 |
£100,000 | 5 |
£50,000 | 11 |
£25,000 | 21 |
£10,000 | 51 |
£5,000 | 104 |
£1,000 | 1,315 |
£500 | 3,945 |
£100 | 18,010 |
£50 | 18,010 |
£25 | 2,207,275 |
Total prize fund value: | Total number of prizes: |
Information provided by NS&I
The Premium Bonds prize fund rate is currently 1.35% and the odds of each individual Bond number winning a prize are 26,000 to 1.
In the December 2015 draw, ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) paid out over 2.2 million prizes of more than £65 million in value. There were 58,467,459,561 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.
This brings the grand total of prizes since the first draw in June 1957 to 331 million and the value of those prizes to £16.2 billion.
There are currently over 1.1 million unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes, totally more than £50 million.
Find out more about checking your Premium Bonds here
If you're worried about missing out on unclaimed prizes then why not register your numbers and have any winnings paid directly into your bank account. This can be done on the NS&I website here. There is no time limit for claiming prizes.
Check whether you won in November, October or September here!
