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January Premium Bonds winners announced – did you win £1 million?
More than 2.6 million historic Premium Bonds prizes are still waiting to be claimed, NS&I says
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The Berkshire winner earned the £1 million jackpot with the number 377PG290829 – they’ve held £50,000 since December 2019.
One of the Premium Bonds owners that won £100,000 has just £4,400 in total holdings and secured the winnings with a Premium Bond bought in October 2025.
Andrew Westhead, NS&I retail director, said: “We're delighted to kick off 2026 by creating our first Premium Bonds millionaires of the year in Suffolk and Berkshire.”
How many people were winners in the January 2026 Premium Bonds prize draw?
In the January 2026 draw, over £406 million will be paid to Premium Bonds holders through more than six million prizes.
Since the first draw, in June 1957, almost £40 billion worth of prizes have been paid out.
Below is the breakdown of prizes for this month’s draw:
Bond holders can check if they have won anything between £25 and £100,000 by using the Premium Bonds prize checker app or visiting the NS&I website the day after the first working day of each month. For this month’s draw, this is Saturday, 3 January.
Make sure you’ve got your Bond or NS&I number to hand so you can access your account.
If you’ve got Premium Bonds but haven’t checked to see if you’ve won anything in a while, it’s worth looking into now.
NS&I says over 99% of prizes have been paid to winners since draws began in 1957, but there are still millions of unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes.
The government-backed savings provider says there are currently 2,695,399 prizes worth more than £112 million that haven’t been claimed.
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