Saga offers student home insurance

Thursday, 20 August 2009 12:00

Saga is providing home contents insurance to students in a bid to make university life safer for freshers.

The cover is available as an add-on for students whose parents have Saga's home contents insurance.

According to Saga, one in three students fall victim to crime at University each year. And a quarter of all burglaries, Saga said, are through an open or insecure window or door within a few weeks of the new term.

Andrew Goodsell, executive chairman of Saga, said: "For many students, making new friends and socialising will be higher on their agenda than being security conscious.

"This could make them easy targets for criminals."

Saga has launched its student cover as one in ten over-50s, the insurer's target customer, have a child at university.

And it also providing a Student Survival Guide, produced by the police, home office and National Union of Students, in a bid to further educate students on crime reduction.

Saga's student cover provides up to £3,500 of cover contents at the student's digs and while transferring their belongings to and from their parent's home and their new accommodation.

The cover automatically provides cover for digital downloads.

And students and their parents can choose the additional option for the policy to cover loss or damage to personal belongings, bicycles and sports equipment in the UK.

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