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OCTOBER’S £1 MILLION JACKPOT WINNING NUMBERS
02 October 2006
One million other tax-free* prizes worth almost £82m also awarded
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Number 1
A man living in Cheshire
Bond number: 62ZQ702633
Bought in March 2005
Bond Value: £2,000
Total holdings: £21,555 |
Number 2
A woman living in Edinburgh
Bond number: 112DB550898
Bought in July 2006
Bond Value: £5,000
Total holdings: £30,000 |
Celebrating Premium Bond holders
The winner from Cheshire, who is keeping his identity a closely-guarded secret, exclaimed: “Its a big shock, I'm gob smacked, it will take a lot of thinking about what I’m going to do with it!”
The winner from Edinburgh, who has also chosen to remain anonymous, exclaimed “I put my money into Premium Bonds as I’ve always heard good stories about them, the actual bond that won I purchased just a couple of months ago, I can’t believe my luck! The moment I heard I reached for the champagne! Winning the jackpot will certainly help with the Christmas shopping!
The winners were told in person by NS&I’s Agent Millions – M1 and M2 – the mystery people who pay a personal visit to the jackpot winners to give them the good news.
Regional facts
In Cheshire, over 602,000 people own Premium Bonds worth over £813 million. There are 3,857 unclaimed prizes in the area, worth over £219,000. This is the third time a jackpot winner has emerged in Cheshire.
This is the second time the £1 million Premium Bond jackpot has been won in the county of Lothian since the top prize was introduced in 1994. In Edinburgh itself over 247,000 people own Premium Bonds worth over £271 million. There are 4,463 unclaimed prizes in Edinburgh, worth over £252,000.
In October’s draw ERNIE gave away over one million prizes worth almost £84 million.
Number and value of prizes awarded in October 2006
£1 million 2
£100,000 8
£50,000 15
£25,000 31
£10,000 78
£5,000 155
£1,000 2,015
£500 6,045
£100 136,627
£50 1,188,210
Prize value Number of prizes
£ 83,990,700 1,333,186
Premium Bond Facts
The Premium Bond prize fund rate is 3.15% tax-free*, equivalent to 5.25% for a higher rate taxpayer and 3.93% for a basic rate taxpayer. The odds of winning are 24,000 to 1 and, with average luck, an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds can expect to win 15 tax-free* prizes a year – more than one a month.
23 million people have more than £32 billion invested in Premium Bonds.
Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches. Customers can pick up leaflets at over 700 Tesco stores.
Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from winning tax-free* prizes.
Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 142 million tax-free* prizes worth almost £9 billion have been given away. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million.
There is currently £30 million in unclaimed prizes. There is no time limit on claiming prizes. Premium Bond investors can check to see if they have won by logging on to www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bond prize checker.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
1. The lucky jackpot winners become ERNIE’s 165th and 166th Premium Bond millionaires.
2. * All Premium Bond prizes are free of UK income Tax and Capital Gains tax.
3. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and buying Premium Bonds online are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team.
4. 50 years of Premium Bonds – during 2006 and 2007, NS&I will be celebrating 50 years since Premium Bonds were launched in 1956 and the first draw took place in 1957. To celebrate NS&I will give away five £1 million prizes in each of its two anniversary draws in both December 2006 and June 2007.
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