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October NS&I Premium Bonds winners - check now to see what you won
NS&I Premium Bonds holders can check now to see if they have won a prize this month. We explain how to check your premium bonds
While you may not have hit the million pound jackpot, with more prizes now up for grabs from the treasury-backed bank, you may well have scooped something in this draw.
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While two lucky bondholders may get a visit from Agent Million if they hit the jackpot there are thousands of other prizes. Prizes start from £25 - with over a million of these drawn in the October NS&I Premium Bond Prize draw. NS&I is also dishing out over 2.3 million £100 and £50 prizes.
You’ll need your bond number at hand. You can check if you have won anything going back as far as 6 months.
You can also set up your Amazon Alexa smart speaker to let you know. Just activate the prize checker skill on the Alexa app and enter your NS&I number. After that, Alexa will keep you up to date.
A total of 5,786,217 prizes worth £470,853,175 will be paid out in premium bond prizes this October. There were 121,510,495,306 Bond numbers eligible for the draw.
Here are the details of the prize draw for NS&I Premium Bond prize draw for October:
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Value of prize
Number of prizes
£1,000,000
2
£100,000
90
£50,000
181
£25,000
360
£10,000
902
£5,000
1,803
£1,000
18,834
£500
56,502
£100
2,339,946
£50
2,339,946
£25
1,027,651
Total value of prizes: £470,853,175
Total 5,786,217
How will my Premium Bond prize be paid to me?
If you have won, then your prize is usually paid into your bank account, or you can choose to reinvest it into Premium Bonds. You can set up automatic payments on the NS&I website.
Reinvesting means not only do you have a higher chance of winning in the next draw, but it also means you do not risk having an unclaimed prizes sitting around.
How to check for unclaimed Premium Bond prizes?
Every year, millions of Premium Bond prizes go unclaimed. If you have not checked for some time, then there are few ways of finding out whether you have any cash waiting to be claimed.
If you’re registered for online or phone services, you can call NS&I for free on 08085 007 007.
If you aren’t registered, you can write to NS&I and ask if you have any unclaimed prizes.
To help the process, include the following information:
Premium Bonds holder's number
Your current name
Any previous names
Your current address
Any previous addresses where Bonds may have been registered
Your signature
Send your letter to: NS&I, Sunderland, SR43 2SB.
Any prizes will then be sent to your home address - they cannot be sent directly to your bank account.
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