Press Release

New Millionaires From Kent And Wiltshire In March's Jackpot Draw

2 March 2009

Winning Premium Bond numbers

Over 1 million tax-free prizes awarded worth a total of over £58 million

Millionaire 1
A woman living in Kent
Bond Number: 133YQ286136
Winning Bond bought in November 2007
Total holdings: £30,000

Millionaire 2
A man living in Wiltshire
Bond Number: 130YK397794
Winning Bond bought in August 2007
Total holdings : £16,158

In Kent over 689,000 people hold Premium Bonds worth over £1.3 billion. There are 13,309 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in total worth approximately £776,000.

In Wiltshire over 266,500 people hold Premium Bonds worth over £500 million. There are 4,290 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, in total worth approximately £266,000.

In March's draw ERNIE paid out over 1 million prizes, together amounting to more than £58 million in value. There were 39,323,425,098 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

Prize and value breakdown in March 2009

Value of Prizes	Number of Prizes
£1,000,000	2
£ 100,000	1
£ 50,000	1
£25,000	3
£10,000	6
£5,000	15
£1,000	235
£ 500	705
£100	29,403
£50	1,061,946
Total Prize Fund Value £58,985,137	Total Number of Prizes 1,092,317

Premium Bond facts

The current Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 1.8% tax-free2. The current odds of each £1 Bond number winning any prize are 36,000 to 1, so with average luck an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds could win 10 tax-free prizes a year. At the end of January 2009, over 23 million people had a total of over £39 billion invested in Premium Bonds.

Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007 (see note 5), 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 potentially winning tax-free prizes.

Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957 over 186 million tax-free prizes worth £11.9 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million.

There are currently over 570,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £34 million. There is no time limit for 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.