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Press releaseAUGUST’S £1 MILLION JACKPOT WINNING NUMBERS01 August 2008Over 1.6 million tax-free prizes worth a total of over £103 million awarded
Celebrating Premium Bonds winners The winner from Dorset wishes to remain anonymous, however she said “I feel very lucky to have won and still can’t quite believe it. I’m not sure what I’ll do with all this money yet but I will definitely treat my family to a nice summer holiday.” The winner from Sheffield also wishes to remain anonymous. In Dorset just over 337,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth in total just over £765 million. There are also 5,806 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in Dorset worth a total of £337,825. This is the third time that someone in Dorset has won the jackpot. In Sheffield over 170,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth a total of over £197 million. There are also 3,390 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in Sheffield, worth a total of over £199,075. It is the second time that someone in Sheffield has won the Premium Bond jackpot prize. In August’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.6 million prizes, together amounting to more than £103 million in value. There were 36,660,269,997 Bonds in the August draw. Value and number of prizes awarded in August 2008
Premium Bond Facts The current Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 3.40% tax-free2. The current odds of each £1 Bond number winning any prize are 22,000 to 1, so with average luck an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds could win 16 tax-free prizes a year. 23 million people have a total of £36 billion invested in Premium Bonds. Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 0075, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches, and brochures can be picked up in WHSmith in 400 of its High Street stores and 155 of its travel stores. Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital 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 177 million tax–free prizes together worth over £11 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million. There are currently over 500,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, which added together amount to over £31 million. There is no time limit on claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by visiting www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker. ENDS Notes to Editors 1. The August jackpot winners from Dorset and Sheffield both wish to remain anonymous. 2. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax. 3. The lucky jackpot winners become ERNIE’s 215th and 216th Premium Bond millionaires. 4. 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. 5. Free phone number – calls from mobiles may be chargeable. Telephone calls may be recorded. 6. Further information on NS&I (National Savings and Investments), including press releases and product information, is available on the website at www.nsandi.com. You can also contact the NS&I media team. 7. Subscribe to the NS&I RSS newsfeed. Simply copy and paste this link www.nsandi.com/mediacentre.xml into your RSS reader to receive regular news alerts from NS&I. 8. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522
Media team The numbers below are for media use only. Customers wishing to contact NS&I can find details here.
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