A saver who put £100 in Premium Bonds just over a year ago is now £50,000 richer, the December 2024 prize draw results has revealed.
While Premium Bonds do not offer savers a guaranteed return, the Liverpool-based winner will no doubt be delighted with the windfall.
NS&I keeps details about the winners private, but the Government-backed savings provider has announced the Winning Bond is 551SN364490.
The lucky person purchased £100 in Premium Bonds in September 2023, to bring their total holding value to £535.
This winner isn’t the only person to win a high value prize within months of purchasing the winning bond.
Two savers bought the Winning Bonds 597CB991710 and 598GL029585 in October 2024.
The pair, with one from the Highlands % Islands and the other from Gloucestershire, scooped up £100,000.
Another Premium Bonds holder struck gold in September 2024, winning £100,000 from a £100 bond held since July 2024 – the first eligible draw for that bond.
As 2024 comes to a close, close to 71 million Premium Bonds prizes were won, with a total value of more than £5.5billion.
The South East proved to be 2024’s Premium Bonds hotspot, with seven £1million prizes awarded to the region.
The winning areas included West Sussex, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surrey and Kent.
A Staffordshire bond holder who invested just £1 in April 1960 also scooped a whopping £25,000 prize in September 2024.
The prize fund rate for Premium Bonds is four per cent and the odds of any £1 Bond number winning a prize are 22,000 to 1.
Savers can find some details about the high value winners on NS&I’s website now, and the Premium Bonds prize checker will be updated tomorrow.
Premium Bonds prize winners are notified when a prize is won, but sometimes people move or change their contact details without letting NS&I know.
People can check for unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes easily by using NS&I’s online prize checker or the prize checker app using their holder’s number.
There are currently 2,484,321 unclaimed prizes worth £90,963,050 waiting to be claimed by holders of Premium Bonds.