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The best investment of last year? Premium bond saver wins £100,000 with £100 bonus – see all the winners

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Luck of the draw: This month's Premium Bond winners include a £100,000 prize won by an NS&I customer with £100 in Premium Bonds

A Premim bond holder scooped a £100,000 prize in the May draw for a £100 share he had bought just over a year earlier.

The lucky winner, based in central London, invested the £100 in premium bonds in March 2023, meaning in just over a year he made a whopping 99.900 per cent return.

Meanwhile, another West Yorkshire-based premium bond holder took home a £50,000 prize from a £125 stake in bonds he bought in June 2018.

Luck of the draw: This month’s Premium Bond winners include a £100,000 prize won by an NS&I customer with £100 in Premium Bonds

Two lucky Premium Bond holders will become millionaires in May after winning £1 million Premium Bond jackpots.

One of the coveted £1 million jackpots was won by a Premium Bonds customer from Hampshire, with a stake of £45,000. The winning bonds were purchased in September 2022.

The other £1m prize was won by a saver based outside London who had a £10,575 stake in premium bonds. The winning bonds were purchased in July 2020.

Premium Bonus Winners

Prize Area Bonus value
£1,000,000 Hampshire and the Isle of Wight £24,900
£1,000,000 outer london £10,000
£100,000 Berkshire £15,000
£100,000 North Yorkshire £14,400
£100,000 outer london £39,980
£100,000 leicester £300
£100,000 healing £980
£100,000 Essex £8,875

More winners from May 2024

See list of May 2024 winners

This month, 45 per cent of the highest value prizes – the £1 million, £100,000 and £50,000 prizes – were won by customers with a maximum holding of £50,000, This is Money analysis can reveal.

A total of 5,888,574 prizes worth £453,420,125 will be paid out in the May 2024 draw.

There were two £1 million prizes in this month’s draw, 87 prizes of £100,000 and 173 prizes of £50,000.

Andrew Westhead, retail director at NS&I, said: ‘Congratulations to our two new millionaires from Hampshire and outer London. We’re delighted to be able to make so many people smile every month with our tax-free prizes, which range from £25 to £1 million.

‘This year we celebrate thirty years since ERNIE made our first millionaire. The May prize pool was more than £453 million and more than 5.8 million prizes were drawn.

“Each £1 voucher has an equal chance of winning, so the more you save, the better chance you have of winning a tax-free prize.”

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