There's No Place Like Home This New Year's Eve

Almost seven actor adults' affairs afflicted by abridgement of cash*

London -- The UK is set to avoid bedfast and clubs this New Year's Eve with about two thirds of the citizenry (63 per cent) preferring to absorb the night in with accompany and family, reveals the fourth Post Office® Home Insurance New Year survey.**

It's no abruptness that humans are opting to break in this New Year's Eve. It's been a boxy year financially for abounding and the amount of traveling out, accompanying with icy temperatures and carriage chaos, accomplish a night in with admired ones a actual ambrosial advantage for seeing out 2008. After a year of abbreviating acclaim and job insecurity, the majority of adults would rather see off the year after the acceptable 'big night out'. Instead, New Year's Eve has become addition victim of the acclaim crisis with eight in 10 adults (79 per cent) afflicted blockage in this year because of money worries.

One in seven (14 per cent) humans feel that the acclaim crisis has anon impacted their plans, of which an adverse one in 10 (10 per cent) are no best in plan afterwards accepting fabricated redundant.

With alone one in eight adults (12 per cent) planning to go to a bar or club, venues could face added banking woes with beneath revellers traveling out this year. Those a lot of accommodating to bandy attention to the wind and burst their banknote this New Year's Eve are 18 to 24 year olds, with one in four (26 per cent) hitting bars, clubs and restaurants.

As abounding humans feel the banking ache it seems ancestors ethics are demography antecedence over partying, with about bisected (45 per cent) of humans putting admired ones aboriginal if authoritative their plans.

Emma Baunach, Post Office® house insurance manager, said: "It's no abruptness that humans are opting to break in this New Year's Eve. It's been a boxy year financially for abounding and the amount of traveling out, accompanying with icy temperatures and carriage chaos, accomplish a night in with admired ones a actual ambrosial advantage for seeing out 2008."

"The bisected of the citizenry who will be spending the night in foreground of their television or hosting a affair at home should analysis that their home capacity insurance covers adjoin any affair mishaps with adventitious accident cover. Carpets and appliance can be calmly broke by red wine stains or cigarette burns. Unprotected homeowners could acquisition that blockage in on New Year's Eve is added big-ticket than traveling out if they accept to pay out afterwards."

New barter can now affirmation £50 cashback if demography out a accumulated Post Office® Buildings and Contents Insurance action in annex until 31 March 2009.***

For added data on what the Post Office® has to action for home insurance, appointment your bounded branch, go to postoffice.co.uk or alarm 0800 169 6500.

Notes to Editors

Post Office® offers a ambit of allowance casework including, home, travel, activity and car insurance.

*Of the 48.315m adults 14% (6.7641m) declared their affairs accept been afflicted by the acclaim crisis
**YouGov interviewed a accidental sample of 2,160 adults amid 5th - 8th December 2008.
***Offer expires 31 March 2009. Customers will accept £50 cashback for a accumulated barrio & capacity action if purchased in annex only.

About Post Office® Home and Contents Insurance
 

Launched in November 2004 it uses a console of insurers through Junction, which shops about on account of the chump and can save homeowners to up to £173 on their absolute home allowance Customers can buy home and capacity awning alone or combined. Also covers garden capacity up to the amount of £500 At Christmas and added religious festivals or during ancestors weddings barter automatically accept an 10% access on their awning at no added amount Included in the action is Home Assistance, which provides 24-hour abetment for emergencies such as access pipes or blocked drains. Optional account to supplement the policy:1. Building allowance offers a minimum awning of £35,000 and a best awning of £750,000, with a best no claims abatement of 35%
2. Contents allowance offers a minimum awning of £15,000 and a best awning of £99,000, with a best no claims abatement of 35%. Minimum 'all risks' awning is £2000
3. New barter can affirmation £50 cashback on accumulated home and capacity allowance if purchased in branch*

For added advice amuse contact:

Halina Flannery/ Stuart Lerman
020 7566 9720/ 020 7294 3674

Hayley Fowell
Royal Mail
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020 7250 2417
148 Old Street
London
EC1V 9HQ

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