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The weekly draw is held on Fridays at 12:30 in the General Post Office, Dublin. Prizes range from €75 to a jackpot of €50,000 except for the last draw of each month, when the jackpot is €500,000. As of 2023, the prize fund will almost treble in size to c. €48m and the size of the fund is now almost €4.7 billion [4]
The prize bond scheme was launched with a Prize Bond of Rs 100. The scheme has been expanded over time. Today we can find around six Prize Bonds including Rs 100, 200, 750, 1500, 25000 and Rs 40000.
The bonds are entered in a monthly prize draw and the government promises to buy them back, on request, for their original price. The government pays interest into the bond fund (4.15% per annum in December 2024 but decreasing to 4% in January 2025) [ 1 ] from which a monthly lottery distributes tax-free prizes to bondholders whose numbers are ...
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A zero-coupon bond is a type of bond that pays no interest and trades at a discounted face value. The investor pays less than the bond’s face value and later receives the full value of the bond ...
The prize fund is paid for out of the equivalent interest payable on the entire bond pool for that month. As of 2020 the prize fund rate is 4.65% [5] implying that a bond holder can expect to achieve a mean long term return of 4.65% per annum. In reality, the nature of a lottery bond means that median returns are lower and are increasing in the ...
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Electronic Selective indicator equipment (ELSIE) was the machine that first selected Bonus Bonds in the 1970s. Each month the trust paid out a total of NZ$7.9 million, consisting of 248,000 random tax-paid cash prizes, based on the amount invested, with three top prizes: one of $1,000,000, one of $100,000 and one of $50,000.