A Premium Bonds saver who has invested just a total of £2 is now £10,00 richer.
National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has drawn more than 5.9 million prizes this month, worth over £413 million.
A Merseyside saver has just turned a £2 investment from 1957 into a £10,000 windfall, making it one of the oldest known winning Premium Bonds in history.
The winning Bond, BF880536, has been eligible for over 800 monthly draws and has finally paid out after 68 years.
This extraordinary win shows why Premium Bonds remain a popular investment, proving that even the tiniest amount can deliver a big surprise decades later.
Premium Bonds prizes range from £25 to £1million - with ERNIE drawing more than 5.9 million prizes this month.
NS&I has announced some details about this month's Premium Bonds prize winners GETTYNS&I has updated the Premium Bonds prize checker tool and a list of May's high value winners has also been published this week.
The Government-backed savings provider has also confirmed which two lucky winners have become the UK's newest millionaires.
Unlike regular savings accounts, bond holders do not receive additional interest but are instead enrolled into a prize draw to have the opportunity to win tax-free prizes of up to £1million.
It’s not just Merseyside seeing long-awaited wins — several other lucky savers across the UK have landed £10,000 prizes from small Premium Bond investments.
A lucky winner from Inner London purchased the winning bond 8QT128279 back in April 1974, with a total holding of just £50. In Coventry, another saver hit the jackpot with bond 55VF059593, bought in May 1998 as part of a £100 holding.
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Premium Bonds savers can use NS&I's prize checker app to check for unclaimed prizes NS&IMore recently, a winner from Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot scooped £10,000 with bond 573WE026029, bought in March 2024 with a total holding of £70.
And in Northamptonshire, bond 124AR847656, part of a £100 holding purchased in March 2007, also brought home the big prize.
These wins show that it doesn’t take a fortune to win one, just a bit of luck and time.
The odds of winning in the monthly Premium Bond prize draw are 22,000 to 1 for every £1 Bond, with a variable annual prize fund rate of 3.80 per cent.
Since February 2019, the minimum investment in Premium Bonds has been £25, while the maximum is now £50,000 per person.
Prize Breakdown for May 2025:
- £1,000,000 – 2 prizes
- £100,000 – 79 prizes
- £50,000 – 157 prizes
- £25,000 – 315 prizes
- £10,000 – 789 prizes
- £5,000 – 1,575 prizes
- £1,000 – 16,556 prizes
- £500 – 49,668 prizes
- £100 – 1,843,199 prizes
- £50 – 1,843,199 prizes
- £25 – 2,185,611 prizes
NS&I has announced details about the new £1million Premium Bonds prize winners
GETTYA total of 5,941,150 prizes worth £413,900,125 will be paid out in the May 2025 prize draw. There were 130,705,305,671 Bond numbers eligible for the draw.
Checking prizes
To check if someone has won a Premium Bond prize, they can use the online prize checker, which displays this month’s prizes, as well as any winnings from the last six draws and older, unclaimed prizes.
The same information is available through the prize checker app, which can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
