How to burglar proof your home with thefts soaring in the winter months

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Insurance claims for burglary rise by a third in the winter months and sometimes it can be down to households not doing basic checks.

This week, editor Simon Lambert, assistant editor Lee Boyce and host Georgie Frost take a look what you can do to protect your home.

Elsewhere, can you use Section 75 when booking a holiday on a credit through a third party?

We take a look at what common myths many have when it comes to consumer rights, including: if a shop prices an item up wrong, is it obliged to sell it for the lower amount?

We tackle a question that could be on the minds of parents – should you pay off your child's student loan, or help them buy a home? And just how bonkers is the current student finance system?

Savers aged over 50 are being sent newly-revamped and shortened 'wake-up packs' about their pensions – a good idea?

And finally, could you have an old comic book gathering dust worth a pretty penny?

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me and editor Simon Lambert today is Assistant Editor Lee Boyce.
0:07.1	And the clocks have gone back, winter is a coming, but as are the burglars.
0:12.4	So we'll give you the top tips on how to keep your home safe in the dark.
0:16.0	Also today, we run through some of the consumer rights we get wrong and whether booking through a third party will affect credit card claims.
0:23.6	Also, should you help your kids pay off their student loan or save for a house
0:27.2	and do you need a pension wake-up call?
0:29.9	Plus, we love a good coin story, but what about comic books?
0:33.7	Don't forget you step today with all the latest breaking money news,
0:36.3	just go to this ismoney.com.uk or download the app.
0:40.3	But first, the clocks have indeed gone back.
0:43.5	We've got an hour extra in bed.
0:46.2	That was probably the only positive thing when you think that the knights are drawing in and the burglars are as well.
0:52.6	Theft insurance claims go up a third during winter months,
0:56.0	and it's often because we aren't doing the basic checks.
0:59.7	So how do you make sure that you don't become a victim?
1:01.7	Well, this is money.
1:02.6	I've been talking to the hardware retailer Robert Dias to get some tips.
1:07.6	So, Lee, welcome.
1:09.3	Why do claims go up so much in winter months?
1:12.6	It's just a bigger sort of time frame in which Burglitz can kind of operate. You know,
1:19.6	they like to tend to like to operate in darkness rather than in broad daylight.
1:23.6	You can understand why, yeah.
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