Premium Bonds - Not a bean for months now!!!!

[CambsBill]

£175 on £100k between us this month. Usually £75-£150 most months

[Powerkiter]

First month of following purchase of £30k following house sale and filling up a number of savings accounts; thought I would put some in PB.

£25 on £30k.

Where do you find the details of winners of significant prizes? i.e. prize, number of bonds held, county - not after actual address ;-)

[The Mad Monk]

Powerkiter said:

Where do you find the details of winners of significant prizes? i.e. prize, number of bonds held, county - not after actual address ;-)

Google.

[droopsnoot]

Nothing for me since January.

[BoRED S2upid]

Mariosbt said:

What happens to dead peoples bonds if they are not left in a will... do they just carry on being unclaimed wins if drawn? If so there could thousands of numbers drawn that will never be claimed.

Not unclaimed as such though are they? They are either posted to you as a cheque which will be returned to sender and I imagine investigated as to why or reinvested until you hit a big win and agent millionaire comes to find you.

[doogle83]

Powerkiter said:

Where do you find the details of winners of significant prizes? i.e. prize, number of bonds held, county - not after actual address ;-)

https://www.nsandi.com/prize-checker

Scroll down to "March's high value winners" and click on the + to expand the list.

[AndyAudi]

after nothing on £10k since Oct, £25 in Jan & Feb

[Sochaux]

£100 on £22,000.

[carreauchompeur]

£10,000 377QV813568 £49,980 Bristol, City of £49,980 Dec-19

Nice little return in a couple of months!

[Fanboy911]

£225 on 150k

Better than last month

[Mariosbt]

webstercivet said:

sh1ggsy said:

There is currently over £63 million in unclaimed bonds.

£63m in unclaimed prizes. Not a huge amount, relative to the £80 billion total invested and £93m in prizes per month.

Yes ..but if they are drawing numbers that belong to f@cking ghosts, they are not going to be claimed ffs. 9 out of 10 numbers drawn may belong to deceased.

[webstercivet]

Mariosbt said:

Yes ..but if they are drawing numbers that belong to f@cking ghosts, they are not going to be claimed ffs. 9 out of 10 numbers drawn may belong to deceased.

Eh? No idea what point you're making there.

[Mariosbt]

webstercivet said:

Mariosbt said:

Yes ..but if they are drawing numbers that belong to f@cking ghosts, they are not going to be claimed ffs. 9 out of 10 numbers drawn may belong to deceased.

Eh? No idea what point you're making there.

You have virtually no chance of winning. The money will just stay in the pot if nobody is claiming it. Unless each unclaimed number is redrawn. I don’t own any... but considering buying some.

[Legacywr]

£25 for the last 3 months on £50k for me

[greygoose]

£25 on 17500 for March.

[sh1ggsy]

webstercivet said:

Eh? No idea what point you're making there.

I think the point is that the bonds numbers that are unclaimed are probably mostly still eligible for current draws, if they were to win again (or any in the same batch they were purchased with) then their existence just reduces the chances of winning for everyone else, good for the government though, they have to payout less.

5 of the unclaimed bonds are worth £100k each.

[Jim the Sunderer]

£25.00!


I would have preferred something in the 5 figures.

[webstercivet]

sh1ggsy said:

I think the point is that the bonds numbers that are unclaimed are probably mostly still eligible for current draws, if they were to win again (or any in the same batch they were purchased with) then their existence just reduces the chances of winning for everyone else, good for the government though, they have to payout less.

5 of the unclaimed bonds are worth £100k each.

Yeah, but they're a small percentage. For the whole time premium bonds have existed, there's only £63m unclaimed prizes. There's £93m in fresh prizes every single month. So shouldn't be a major concern.

[Adrian250]

there was only 1 month last year when I didn't win at least £25 on about £14k. Already had 3 winners this year too.

[oldnbold]

4 x £25 for me this month on £37k held. That's £350 over the last 6 months.