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Premium Bonds. No Wins In A Year?
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My husband held £40,000 worth of Premium Bonds.
When he died I was allowed to leave them in the 'draws' for a year, (previously he won at least 1 X £25.00 a month and often more). Now that they have been paid back apparently not one win has happened in a year. I just can't believe that.
Is there anything I can do?
When he died I was allowed to leave them in the 'draws' for a year, (previously he won at least 1 X £25.00 a month and often more). Now that they have been paid back apparently not one win has happened in a year. I just can't believe that.
Is there anything I can do?
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Are you sure that the notifications of any wins weren't, for example, sent to a disused email address?
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Are you sure that the notifications of any wins weren't, for example, sent to a disused email address?
Buenchico.
My husband didn't use the Internet, and I check my two email addresses daily.
Besides, previously, and for myself this month, the winnings were always sent as a cheque in the post (I won 2x £25.00 this month).
David, I have a list of his numbers, will,have a check, but what I think happened is they forgot to include his bonds in the draws. Will ring them on Monday. I don't hold out much hope.
Thank you all.
My husband didn't use the Internet, and I check my two email addresses daily.
Besides, previously, and for myself this month, the winnings were always sent as a cheque in the post (I won 2x £25.00 this month).
David, I have a list of his numbers, will,have a check, but what I think happened is they forgot to include his bonds in the draws. Will ring them on Monday. I don't hold out much hope.
Thank you all.
If you log on to http:// www.nsa ndi.com / you can enter you husband's holder number in the box and check the current month, previous six months or unclaimed prizes against that number. That should tell you if there are genuinely no wins or whether they might have gone astray.
In case anyone is still interested, letter came a couple of minutes ago to say that a separate cheque for £300.00, (12 x £25.00) would be sent.
So, quite pleased.
(You'll probably laugh at the ridiculousness of this, but I mentally asked my late husband to let me win the £1,000,000 prize which was to be drawn on the anniversary of his death, on 1st December 2015. I guess he wasn't listening.)
So, quite pleased.
(You'll probably laugh at the ridiculousness of this, but I mentally asked my late husband to let me win the £1,000,000 prize which was to be drawn on the anniversary of his death, on 1st December 2015. I guess he wasn't listening.)
repeal the law of averages? I belonged to the office lotto syndicate for five years. In that time, we beat the law of averages three weeks out of four - ie we had 50 tickets so should have won something every week; instead, it was every month and it was almost never more than a tenner, or whatever the lowest prize was then.