Premium Bond winners for March have been announced - and two people in the UK are now £1million richer.
The first £1million jackpot winner is from Devon, with this person holding £36,000 in Premium Bonds.
They bought the winning Bond 170MY806167 in June 2010 - almost 12 years ago - and are the seventeenth Premium Bond millionaire to be picked from Devon.
The second big £1million winner comes from Essex with the Bond number 276RS522196.
This person has £16,000 invested in Premium Bonds and purchased their winning Bond in July 2016.
The win makes them the tenth Premium Bonds millionaire from Cheshire.
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In the March 2022 prize draw, a total of 3,385,641 prizes worth £97,337,100 will be paid out and there were 116,804,536,571 Bond numbers eligible for the draw.
Since the first draw in June 1957, ERNIE has drawn 555 million prizes with a total value of £22.7billion.
Premium Bonds is an investment product issued by National Savings & Investment but instead of earning a set amount of interest, you are entered into a monthly prize draw.
This means your chance of winning is completely down to chance - and you may not win anything at all.
For each monthly draw, you could win between £25 and £1million tax free.
The minimum amount you can have invested in Premium Bonds is £25, and the maximum is £50,000.
You can cash in your Premium Bonds at any time without a penalty, though it may take a few days.
Jill Waters, NS&I retail director, said: “A massive congratulations to our new Premium Bonds jackpot winners from Devon and Cheshire. This really is a life-changing sum of money and we wish them all the best for the future.
“Aside from our two jackpot winners, this month, ERNIE will be paying out more than 3.3 million other tax-free prizes worth £97,337,100, surprising and delighting people up and down the country.”
How to check if you’re a Premium Bonds winner
The easiest way to check if you're a Premium Bonds winner is to use the nsandi.com prize checker tool and prize checker app.
To see if you've won, you will need to enter your Premium Bonds holders’ number.
If you have an Amazon Alexa, you can also ask it to tell you the latest winning numbers.
Customers can choose to have their prizes paid straight into their bank account, or to have them automatically reinvested into new Premium Bonds.
Those who have chosen to have prizes paid to their bank account, or have their prizes reinvested, will be informed whether they have won by email or text message.
You can manage your Bonds online at nsandi.com and by phone.
At the moment the odds of a Bond winning any prize each month are 34,500 to 1. The vast majority of the prizes released each month are for £25.
