The Premium Bonds winners for April have been announced – with a million pounds won by a Cumbrian player.
The first Bond number drawn was 323PN679583 and it belongs to a female from Cumbria. The winning bond is part of a £50,000 holding and was purchased in February 2018.
The win makes the woman the eighth Premium Bonds millionaire from Cumbria.
422PG980526 was the second bond number drawn and it belongs to a female from Lothian. The winning bond was purchased in November 2020 and is part of a £50,000 holding.
The win means that the woman becomes the third Premium Bonds jackpot winner from Lothian.
There are several ways that Premium Bonds customers can provide NS&I with their bank account details:
- Customers already registered for NS&I’s online and phone services can input their bank account details quickly, easily and securely by logging into their account on NS&I’s website. They should visit nsandi.com and use the secure login. They should go to ’Your profile’ and select ‘Your prize options’ and choose to have prizes paid directly to their bank account or to have prizes automatically reinvested into more Premium Bonds.
- Customers who are not registered can use NS&I’s new prize options service. The new service consists of a secure three-stage process. Customers can input their bank account details and should have their Premium Bonds holder’s number to hand, which they can find on their Bond record. Customers should enter their UK bank account details and can choose to have prizes paid directly into their bank account or reinvested into more Premium Bonds (up to the maximum £50,000). Customers who opt to use this service will need either an email address or a UK mobile phone number so that NS&I can notify them of any prize win by either email or text message. Customers can also call 08085 007 007.
- Customers who are unable to provide their bank details online can phone our customer service team on 08085 007 007 to select their prize options.
Checking Premium Bonds prizes
Customers can check to see if they have won on the nsandi.com prize checker, official prize checker app or via their Alexa-enabled device from tomorrow.
Customers will need their Premium Bonds holder’s number to use the website and their NS&I number or holder’s number to check via the app.
In the April 2021 prize draw, a total of 3,068,376 prizes worth £88,215,800 will be paid out. There were 105,858,958,006 bond numbers eligible for the draw.
Since the first draw in June 1957, ERNIE has drawn 519 million prizes with a total value of £21.6 billion.
| Value of prize | Number of prizes |
| £1,000,000 | 2 |
| £100,000 | 5 |
| £50,000 | 9 |
| £25,000 | 20 |
| £10,000 | 48 |
| £5,000 | 96 |
| £1,000 | 1,764 |
| £500 | 5,292 |
| £100 | 28,673 |
| £50 | 28,673 |
| £25 | 3,003,794 |
| Total £88,215,800 | Total 3,068,376 |
