PREMIUM BONDS

BANTERMERCHANT47

Does anyone know how you can check to see if very old Premium Bonds are still live ??//

Slinky

Log into your account with NS&I and all the bond numbers will be listed.

soolin

Slinky said:

Log into your account with NS&I and all the bond numbers will be listed.

Be warned though it can take ages to get access to an NS and I account if you haven't already set one up. I wasn't able to be identified as my earlier premium bonds have been held in excess of 60 years. This non identification was despite me having newer bonds, many of which have paid out a prize sent to me in my name and to my address.

I had to phone, they sent me a code, and that didn't work so they said they would reset my appliaction attempt, but that didn't work. So they sent me a user name, and that didn't work. Finally having spoken to several people they said I had failed to identify myself - so I had to get a form signed by someone that was not a family member to say they knew me and my ID was me. I sent that in, they lost the first one, so I resent it and finally I got access!

Jessie8787

soolin said:

Slinky said:

Log into your account with NS&I and all the bond numbers will be listed.

Be warned though it can take ages to get access to an NS and I account if you haven't already set one up. I wasn't able to be identified as my earlier premium bonds have been held in excess of 60 years. This non identification was despite me having newer bonds, many of which have paid out a prize sent to me in my name and to my address.

I had to phone, they sent me a code, and that didn't work so they said they would reset my appliaction attempt, but that didn't work. So they sent me a user name, and that didn't work. Finally having spoken to several people they said I had failed to identify myself - so I had to get a form signed by someone that was not a family member to say they knew me and my ID was me. I sent that in, they lost the first one, so I resent it and finally I got access!

And after all of that......had you won anything on those old premuim bonds? maybe a secret million sitting there waiting for you! lol

born_again

They never expire...
Contact them & they will advise you. 

p00hsticks

born_again said:

They never expire...

But they don't ask you to return the old paper ones if you cash them in (I found a handful of my dad's after he died), so there could be some paper ones floating around that have been cashed in and so are no longer in the draw. 

TELLIT01

We found some of my fathers old bonds when he died.  I contacted NS&I several times as executor asking about the bonds and never even had a reply.  As I suspect they hoped, I gave up in the end.

photome

TELLIT01 said:

We found some of my father’s old bonds when he died.  I contacted NS&I several times as executor asking about the bonds and never even had a reply.  As I suspect they hoped, I gave up in the end.

When my Dad died I did I contacted them, no winners, so I cashed them in, was a relatively easy process I found

soolin

Jessie8787 said:

soolin said:

Slinky said:

Log into your account with NS&I and all the bond numbers will be listed.

Be warned though it can take ages to get access to an NS and I account if you haven't already set one up. I wasn't able to be identified as my earlier premium bonds have been held in excess of 60 years. This non identification was despite me having newer bonds, many of which have paid out a prize sent to me in my name and to my address.

I had to phone, they sent me a code, and that didn't work so they said they would reset my appliaction attempt, but that didn't work. So they sent me a user name, and that didn't work. Finally having spoken to several people they said I had failed to identify myself - so I had to get a form signed by someone that was not a family member to say they knew me and my ID was me. I sent that in, they lost the first one, so I resent it and finally I got access!

And after all of that......had you won anything on those old premuim bonds? maybe a secret million sitting there waiting for you! lol

I’ve been receiving my prizes without any issues, whenever I won I just got sent a cheque in the post - which makes no sense of their claim they couldn’t identify me. I have never won more than £500, but feel overall for the few thousand I have, I have done better than if I’d just put money in a savings account. 

p00hsticks

TELLIT01 said:

We found some of my fathers old bonds when he died.  I contacted NS&I several times as executor asking about the bonds and never even had a reply.  As I suspect they hoped, I gave up in the end.

I found it incredibly easy when I had similar - admittedly it was only around £10 or so in bonds. 
I just filled in the form and the money was in the bank account within the week - they never asked me to return the bonds.
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