THE winners of January’s Premium Bonds draw have been revealed – and two people are walking into 2020 a million pounds richer. The first winner is a man from Hertfordshire who purchased his winning Bond in April 2015 and has £40,000 invested. The second winner is a woman for Cheshire East who has the maximum […]
THE winners of January’s Premium Bonds draw have been revealed – and two people are walking into 2020 a million pounds richer.
The first winner is a man from Hertfordshire who purchased his winning Bond in April 2015 and has £40,000 invested.
The second winner is a woman for Cheshire East who has the maximum invested amount allowed of £50,000.
She bought her winning Premium Bond in August 2016.
In the January prize draw, a total of 3,471,112 prizes worth £99,215,975 will be paid out.
There were 85,042,266,956 eligible Bonds for the draw.
If you think you might have an unclaimed prize, the best way to check depends on what info you have about your Premium Bond account – you'll have been given both a Premium Bond holder's number and an NS&I number.
If you haven’t already, it might be worth checking your NS&I account to see if you have won a sum of money that you don’t know about.
There are now more than 1.7 million prizes worth over £64 million still waiting to be claimed by Premium Bonds holders.
To see if you’re a winner, use the prize checker on nsandi.com, the prize check app or via Alexa.
There’s no time limit to claims, so you can go back to the first Bond you purchased.
Most prizes that have gone unclaimed are usually down to winners not keeping personal information, such as a change of address, up to date on the NS&I record.
To avoid missing out on winnings, you can choose to have any future prizes paid directly to your bank account.
In order to do this, register your Premium Bonds and NS&I accounts online.
Since the first draw in June 1957, there have been 456million Premium Bonds prizes, worth £19.9billion.
NS&I reduced the minimum amount needed to save in Premium Bonds from £100 to just £25 earlier this year.
If you haven’t checked your Premium Bonds for a while, here are the winners for December 2019.
In the last six months, 70,000 new savers under 16 have signed up for the scheme.