NS&I Announces Two £1m Premium Bonds Jackpot Winners

National Savings and Investments announced the winners of its April 2026 Premium Bonds prize draw on April 1, revealing two jackpot recipients who each received £1 million in tax-free prizes. The draw, which distributed nearly £376.5 million across almost 5.95 million prizes to holders of more than 130 million eligible bonds, marked the first under revised rules that reduced the prize fund rate to 3.3 percent from 3.6 percent and lengthened the odds of any single £1 bond winning to 23,000 to 1 from 22,000 to 1.

The first top prize went to a holder in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, whose winning bond, number 511HH360429 and valued at £34,650, was purchased in August 2022. This individual maintained the maximum allowable holding of £50,000 entering the draw. The second jackpot was awarded to a saver in Surrey for bond number 519FV988513, bought in November 2022 for £5,000, with their total holdings also at the £50,000 limit. NSI representatives, known as Agent Million, personally notified both winners of their windfalls.

Prizes ranged from £25, with over 2.8 million such awards, to £1 million, including 71 prizes of £100,000, 143 of £50,000, and 714 of £10,000. Each £1 bond...