Two lucky Premium Bond holders are now £1million richer after the prize draw results for June were confirmed today.
The first big winner lives in Essex, with this person holding £42,050 in Premium Bonds.
They bought their winning Bond 83TX260795 in July 2005.
The second £1million winner is from South Gloucestershire with the Bond number 429WV622861.
Their winning Bond was purchased in December 2020 and they hold the maximum £50,000 in Premium Bonds.
Premium Bonds are a savings product by National Savings & Investment (NS&I) - but instead of getting interest on your money, you're entered into a monthly prize draw.
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This means your chance of getting any money back is completely down to chance - and you may not win anything at all.
You get a unique bond number for every £1 invested and each month, you can win between £25 and £1million tax free.
There are two £1million prizes up for grabs each month, compared to over two million £25 prizes that are given away.
The minimum amount you can have invested in Premium Bonds is £25, and the maximum is £50,000.
You can cash in all or part of your Premium Bonds at any time.
How to check if you're a winner
The easiest way to see if you've won is to use the NS&I prize checker online, or the Premium Bonds prize checker app.
If you have an Amazon Alexa, you can ask it to tell you the latest winning numbers.
Customers can choose to have their prizes paid into their bank account, or to have them reinvested into new Premium Bonds.
You should be emailed or sent a text message from NS&I if you've won.
At the moment the odds of a bond winning each month are 24,000 to 1 for every £1 Bond you have invested.
The vast majority of the prizes released each month are for £25.
NS&I recently announced its prize rate has risen from 3.15% to 3.3% from its March 2023 draw, meaning £15million more in prizes were up for grabs.
The jackpot prize of £1million is still only awarded to two winners.
NS&I also yesterday announced online customers wishing to top up their Premium Bonds will shortly start noticing a new payment method, Pay by bank account, appearing in their payment options.
This will be gradually rolled out to customers with easy-access variable rate accounts – Premium Bonds, Direct Saver, Direct ISA, Income Bonds and Junior ISA.
