Premium Bonds December 2018: How to check if you have won December Premium Bonds
CHRISTMAS has come early for two people who have scooped the top Premium Bonds prize of £1million in this month’s draw. Here is how you can check if you have won in December.
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A woman from Kent is the 400th Premium Bonds millionaire with the winning numbers 336ED173008, after holding of £5,300 in the scheme. A second winner was another woman from London who landed the top prize with a winning ticket of 122EX485646. She has £40,000 invested in the bonds overall, but her winning numbers were bought in January 2017 as part of a £5,000 investment.
How can you check if you have won?
People can check if they have any unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes on the NS&I website at www.nsandi.com.
People can also download the free prize Checker app or write to NS&I, Glasgow, G58 1SB.
There are over 1.5 million unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes that worth more than £60 million.
There are over 190,000 unclaimed prizes worth nearly £7.8 million in London alone, which date back to December 1958 and have a prize of £100.
The highest unclaimed prize in the capital is £50,000 and was won in May 2016.
The winner has £9,175 invested in Premium Bonds. There is also one £25,000 prize and four prizes of £10,000 waiting to be claimed.
Over in Kent, there are also 39,000 unclaimed prizes worth £1.5m, which all the way back to April 1959.
What are Premium Bonds?
Premium Bonds are a savings account you can put money into and take out whenever you want.
Any interest paid is then decided by a prize draw every month.
People buy £1 bonds which each have an equal chance of winning, so it’s better to buy more in order to have more of a chance of winning.
Winners are picked by a random number generating computer called Ernie (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment).
The prize money represents the amount that would be paid in interest if premium bonds were regular government bonds.