WHO is the lucky winner celebrating a £1m win?
One Kirklees woman is celebrating after winning £1m in this month’s Premium Bond jackpot.
The unknown woman was told she had scooped the top prize earlier this month when Agent Million knocked on her door.
She beat 24,000 to 1 odds to win a prize, which range in value from £25 to £1m, and had a surprise visit from the agent who delivers the life-changing news.
The winning bond was bought in September 2007 and its owner has a total of £7,000 in bonds.
A spokeswoman for National Savings and & Investment (NS&I) said: “For smaller prizes people have to check but for the million pound prize Agent Million delivers the news face to face.”
The jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s – the machine which picks the winner – 246th Premium Bond millionaire.
In the Kirklees area, there are over 120,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £188m.
But figures show there are more than 2,000 prizes – worth £140,000 – unclaimed by Kirklees folk.
One win dates back to July 1995 and organisers of the Premium Bonds have been unsuccessful in tracing the winner. The woman, who has just £30 in bonds, is yet to claim a prize of £1,000.
The spokeswoman added: “For smaller wins people have to check either online or by calling us to see if they have won anything.
“For unclaimed prizes that date back a few years we have tried to contact people but they may have moved addresses.
“We would ask people if they are holding bonds to check by calling us.”
In total in West Yorkshire, over 13,000 prizes worth more than £800,000 remain unclaimed out of more than 620,000 holdings totalling more than £930m.
Nationally, there are more than 668,000 unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes worth more than £39m.
The NS&I say there are no time limits for claiming prizes
