Luckiest ever Premium Bond winner takes home a total of £1,019,850 since buying their first bond in 2004
The luckiest ever Premium Bond winner has taken home a total of £1,019,850, across 288 prizes, since they bought their first bond in May 2004, Money Mail can reveal.
This includes winning the highly sought-after £1 million prize, as well as one lot of £10,000 and £1,000, eight £100 prizes, 45 lots of £50 and 232 wins worth £25, according to a freedom of information request.
One bondholder has bagged more wins over the same time, with 408 prizes.
Prize haul: The luckiest ever Premium Bond winner has won the top £1m prize, as well as one lot of £10,000 and £1,000, eight £100 prizes, 45 lots of £50 and 232 wins worth £25
However, they amounted to £14,325, because they took home a high number of small prizes.
This included two £500 prizes, 18 lots of £100, 73 £50 wins and 315 prizes worth £25.
NS&I has boosted the prize rate to 3.15 per cent in February and again to 3.3 per cent for March.
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