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Numbers are entered in the draw each month, with an equal chance of winning, until the bond is cashed. As of 2015, each person may own bonds up to £50,000. [4] Since 1 February 2019, the minimum purchase amount for Premium Bonds has been £25. As of January 2025 there are over 128.7 billion eligible Premium Bonds, each having a value of £1.
Every month, savers have the chance to win big prizes as the Premium Bonds winning numbers are announced. There are now 24 million people taking part in the government-backed savings scheme, with ...
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The first winning bond number drawn was 333XB827779 and belongs to a winner in Outer London. The jackpot winner holds £50,000 in premium bonds and purchased the winning bond in June 2018.
The Prize Bond Company is a joint venture between the founders An Post and FEXCO and is based in Killorglin, County Kerry.The company was created in 1989 with issued share capital between the founders of 50% each and will operate the scheme under its current (as of 2011) contract until the end of 2019.
A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery. Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container. In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine called ERNIE.
The number of higher cash prizes for bondholders is set to increase in next week’s draw Premium Bond prize rate to rise to 15-year high: Rules and odds explained Skip to main content
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "premium bond" in non-specific terms as "a bond earning no interest but eligible for lotteries", and then offers the following pre-1956 quotations: 1820: The Times 13 Sept. 3/1 "The premium bonds will be delivered with the state bond and dividend warrant on the 1st February, 1821."