Premium Bonds - February 2023

Huh! Only £25 between us here.

And dh has just offered to take DGS3 to see The Who - a win would have been handy!

£100 for me £50 for DH today.

We have won £75

What will you all do when the government redeems your Premium Bonds as art of its reducing the National Debt programme?

What a sour comment Maizie

£25. Sigh.

MaizieD

What will you all do when the government redeems your Premium Bonds as art of its reducing the National Debt programme?

If the government takes money off 25m premium bond customers they will never be elected again MaizieD, so it’s not going to happen.

MaizieD How unpleasant.

I take it you don't approve of these bonds Mazie?

MaizieD

What will you all do when the government redeems your Premium Bonds as art of its reducing the National Debt programme?

Spend, spend, spend 😂😂😂

Probably on new knees if the NHS can't deliver.
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Oh dear, I thought it was funny.
Just me, then.

Actually, I was wondering, until recently, if they might want to borrow more from us.

Callistemon If the government try to grab ours, we'll whip them out and spend them.

MaizieD

What will you all do when the government redeems your Premium Bonds as art of its reducing the National Debt programme?

What do you mean by "redeems"? Pay back our holdings? How would that reduce the national debt?

Well, I hope I don't see any of you on any other threads supporting government cuts to public services 'because we can't afford it because the national debt is too big'.

Funny how you don't seem to want it repaid after all when it's your Bonds, part of the National Debt, that might be repaid 😀

😢 nothing this month

£50 today. I seem to get that most months.

Rosie51

MaizieD

What will you all do when the government redeems your Premium Bonds as art of its reducing the National Debt programme?

What do you mean by "redeems"? Pay back our holdings? How would that reduce the national debt?

Because your Bonds are part of government borrowings. If they were to pay you all back that would cut the National Debt by about £60billions. 😀

Rosie51. Because the 119 billion Premium Bonds in circulation is money loaned to the Government on which they pay (some) bond holders interest through monthy prizes. It represents 5% of the national debt. The prize fund equates to 3% interest shared out unevenly.

MaizieD

Well, I hope I don't see any of you on any other threads supporting government cuts to public services 'because we can't afford it because the national debt is too big'.

Funny how you don't seem to want it repaid after all when it's your Bonds, part of the National Debt, that might be repaid 😀

What a thoroughly unnecessary and unpleasant post. Some very horrible assumptions being made when only 4 people had posted before your initial comment. On what basis are you accusing people of certain motivations?

It's not up to us to use our bonds to repay the national debt. In our case anyway, buying bonds was just a way of hopefully getting a few wins when there was very little interest around. So if they take our bonds they'll take people's savings too. What a ridiculous notion.

When my Uncle died 10 years ago, I inherited his £1000 of premium bonds. I did a check and discovered that he had not won anything even £25 in all the 20 to 30 years he had held them. Foolishly, I decided to put the £1000 back into bonds in his memory. I won £25 right away and not a sausage since.

You will understand that I am not thrilled to see these monthly reports from happy winners.

Granny23, I imagine most posters have a large or full holding which is why they win regularly. But I did read that someone once won a million with only £17 in bonds. I won £50 this month, nothing last.

Just £25.00 between us. Sigh.....

Me nothing, husband £50. His third win in a row. We are going to be a bit more asidious in checking if the return we are getting is better than the current % rises in savings. Up to date it has been a better return but with the deals that Martin Lewis mentions on his show, perhaps we will be ditching them.