NS&I have reported right this moment that two Premium Bonds holders from Norwich and London are celebrating this September after every profitable the £1 million Premium Bonds jackpot, as one of many nation’s best-known financial savings merchandise approaches its seventieth anniversary in November 2026.
The first Premium Bonds £1 million profitable Bond quantity this month is 484QT130447 and is held by somebody from Norwich. They bought the profitable Bond in January 2022 and maintain £50,000. They are the seventh jackpot winner from Norwich.
The second Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot Bond quantity is 659VC982054 and is held by somebody in London. They bought their profitable Bond in January of this 12 months and maintain £45,500. They are the twenty fifth individual in London to win the £1 million jackpot.
“ERNIE is bringing some autumnal pleasure to two Premium Bonds holders in Norwich and London who’ve gained £1 million every this month.
Premium Bonds first went on sale nearly 70 years in the past. They have been launched in November 1956 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Macmillan. The authentic jackpot was £1,000 and was progressively elevated to £1 million by 1994. ERNIE has since drawn 586 £1 million prizes.”
Andrew Westhead, NS&I Retail Director, mentioned:
September 2026 prize draw breakdown
In the September draw, 6,529,868 tax-free prizes will probably be paid to Premium Bonds prize draw winners totalling £497,086,175. This month there have been 137,127,223,215 £1 Bonds eligible for the draw. This brings the grand complete of prizes for the reason that first draw in June 1957 to 858 million and the worth to £42.8 billion.
| Value of prize | Number of prizes |
| £1,000,000 | 2 |
| £100,000 | 95 |
| £50,000 | 192 |
| £25,000 | 381 |
| £10,000 | 954 |
| £5,000 | 1,909 |
| £1,000 | 19,882 |
| £500 | 59,646 |
| £100 | 2,365,010 |
| £50 | 2,365,010 |
| £25 | 1,716,787 |
| Total worth of prizes | Total variety of prizes |
| £497,086,175 | 6,529,868 |
What are Premium Bonds?
Since they initially went on sale in November 1956, Premium Bonds have supplied savers an accessible option to make investments with the possibility to win tax-free prizes. The first prize draw by ERNIE was held in June 1957.
Individuals can maintain as much as £50,000 in Premium Bonds, together with these aged underneath 16. Premium Bonds provide the safety of being backed by HM Treasury alongside the joy of doubtless profitable tax-free prizes.
Newly bought Premium Bonds should be held for one full calendar month after buy earlier than being eligible for the prize draw.
Prizes are funded based mostly upon a prize fund charge utilized throughout the entire of all eligible Premium Bonds held.
Each £1 Bond bought is entered right into a month-to-month prize draw, the place prizes vary from £25 to £1 million, making it a unique and partaking option to save. The jackpot prize was elevated to £1 million from the April 1994 draw. There are actually two £1 million prizes every month.
Checking prizes
The Bond numbers for the two £1 million jackpot prize winners are introduced on the primary working day of every month, having been contacted instantly by Agent Million. Bond holders can test if they’ve gained prizes starting from £25 to £100,000 the day after the primary working day of every month by utilizing the Premium Bonds prize checker app, visiting the NS&I web site, or by asking Alexa. For September 2026, that is Wednesday 2 September.
To test prizes on the NS&I web site, Bond holders will want their Premium Bonds holder’s quantity. For these utilizing the Premium Bonds Prize Checker app, they will use their holder’s quantity, or their NS&I quantity.
Premium Bonds prizes notifications and unclaimed prizes
Premium Bonds prize winners will obtain notifications of their winnings every month through their chosen methodology equivalent to e mail or textual content if they’ve registered their contact particulars.
Over 99% of prizes have been paid to winners for the reason that draw started in 1957, however there are cases the place prospects relocate or change contact or financial institution particulars and neglect to replace NS&I with the brand new particulars, which may result in unclaimed prizes. Currently there are 2,851,753 unclaimed prizes price £126,787,100 ready to be claimed by Bond holders.
The finest option to keep away from prizes going unclaimed is to have them paid instantly into the holder’s checking account or robotically reinvested into Premium Bonds as much as the £50,000 holding restrict. Prizes robotically reinvested are instantly eligible for the following draw. These cost strategies now account for 9 in ten prizes being paid in these methods.
Customers who assume they could have an unclaimed prize (prizes over 18 months outdated) can test by coming into their holder’s quantity into NS&I’s on-line prize checker or the prize checker app.
In Norwich, there are at present 13,756 unclaimed prizes price £631,875. There is one £50,000 unclaimed prize in Norwich. It was gained in December 2023.
In London, there are at present 485,060 unclaimed prizes price £21,235,875. There is one £100,000 prize and 9 £25,000 prizes ready to be claimed in London.