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Press release2006 BONDS MAKE MILLIONAIRES IN SEPTEMBER’S JACKPOT DRAW01 September 2008
In Somerset over 238,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth in total approximately £458 million. There are also 3,436 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in the area worth a total of £210,725. The average value of each unclaimed prize in Somerset is just over £61. While in Manchester over 790,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth a total of over £1 billion. There are also 16,934 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in Manchester, worth a total of £979,975 with an average value of almost £58 each. In September’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.6 million prizes, together amounting to more than £104 million in value. There were 36,808,246,836 eligible Bonds that could have won a prize.
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. Currently 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 007 007, 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 179 million tax–free prizes together worth £11.5 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million. There are currently over 550,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £32 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 September jackpot winners from Somerset and Manchester 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 217th and 218th 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 media team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
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