September’s winners have been announced, but people with NS&I accounts will be able to see if they won from Tuesday
Three savers from Manchester have won £100k with the Premium Bond draw in September(Image: Copyright Unknown)
Three Premium Bond account holders from Manchester have won a whopping £100k each in the September draw.
It comes shortly after the National Savings and Investments (NS&I) changed its Premium Bond interest rate for the second time this year.
Its prize fund rate reduced by 0.2% (3.8% to 3.6%) from August, a few months after going from 4% to 3.8% in April.
Despite the prize fund rate being slashed, NS&I confirmed that odds of winning remain the same, at 22,000 to 1 for each £1 Premium Bond held, so although a similar amount of people will win, there will be fewer large prizes and less prize money paid out each month.
As always with each Premium Bond draw, two people won the ultimate prize of £1,000,000 – one person in Cumbria and another from Durham.
People will be able to check their Premium Bond accounts from Tuesday, September 2(Image: PA)
The winning bonds were 224BZ748917 and 243VC581367 and each of the new millionaires held the maximum amount of £50,000 in their Premium Bond accounts.
A total of 77 people won the second highest prize of £100,000 including three lucky savers from Manchester. Each of the three £100k winners living in Manchester also had the maximum amount of £50k in their savings account.
The three Manchester-based winners of £100,000 won with codes 190SR155372, 549GD356640, and 544XA949526. A further two people from Manchester have won £50,000 in the September draw along with three winners of £25k.
Generally speaking, the higher amount of savings a person has in their NS&I Premium Bond account, the higher their chances of winning – however there are sometimes some exceptions.
One lucky saver from Essex who had just £350 worth of Premium Bonds won a whopping £100k in the September draw with code 605CL974508. This person also only bought the winning bond in December 2024.
Premium Bonds were launched in 1957 as a fun way to encourage people to save(Image: PA)
Another saver beating the odds was a lucky account holder from Yorkshire who won £50k with just £45 worth of Premium Bonds. These bonds were bought back in 1974.
The NS&I recently revealed that there is currently around £103 million worth of unclaimed Premium Bond prizes.
The government-owned savings bank revealed that thousands of people have had cash windfalls after being reunited with Premium Bond winnings and other cash savings accounts.
But there is also currently a large amount Premium Bond prizes that remains unclaimed. As of June 2025, more than 2.5 million Premium Bond prizes worth more than £103 million remain unclaimed.
People with money saved in an NS&I Premium Bond account will be able to check if they have won from Tuesday, September 2.