NS&I updates Premium Bonds prize checker for August 2022 – how to check if you’ve won | Personal Finance | Finance

Announced on Monday August 1, NS&I shared that a person in Dorset and another in Buckinghamshire had each won the jackpot prize. The NS&I has also updated its prize checker which lets bondholders in the UK check if they have scooped a prize ranging from £25 to £100,000. Britons can find the prize checker on the NS&I website or on the NS&I app on iOS or Android.

People only need to enter their holder number to check and people can find their holder number on their Bond record or by logging into their account.

The holder’s number has either nine or 10 digits, or eight digits followed by a letter.

If a person is using the app to check, they can also use their NS&I number.

A person’s NS&I number consists of 11 digits long and starts with an 11, 21, 31 or 41.

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People can find this in most of the communications they have had from the NS&I.

At the same time as checking this month’s draw, people can also check for any unclaimed prizes owed to them.

Premium Bond prizes don’t carry a time limit, so people are able to claim as far back as the original 1957 draw as long as the bonds are eligible for the draw.

Premium Bonds must also be held for a full calendar month before they can be entered into the monthly prize draw.

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In August the NS&I handed out 10 prizes worth £100,000, 19 prizes worth £50,000, and 40 prizes worth £25,000.

There were 100 people who received a prize of £10,000 and 197 people who bagged a prize of £5,000.

August also saw 87,184 receive a prize of between £1,000 and £50, and over four million people won the smallest prize of £25.

NS&I Premium Bonds are a savings account that people can put money into, and take out, where interest isn’t paid instead savers can win cash in a monthly prize draw.

Since the first draw in July 1957, the NS&I’s Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment (ERNIE) has drawn 577 million prizes with a total value of £23.2 billion.