Thrifty News Digest August 19, 2013

• More than 80pc of drivers opt for comprehensive insurance
  MORE than four out of five people opt for comprehensive insurance cover, a survey by AIB has found.
• Time to study up on how to save €40k cost of college
  IF your child is one of the 56,000 Leaving Cert students who got their results last Wednesday, you’d better have a war chest of €40,000 to hand. That’s what it could cost to send your child to college for four years.
• Students face soaring rents in hunt for home
  COLLEGE-bound students looking for accommodation face soaring rents and a dwindling supply.
• Property investors given 50pc mortgage write-offs
  HUNDREDS of mortgage-holders are being told they need only pay half of their original borrowings as the market for home loans effectively becomes a lottery.
• Revenue 'targets self-employed over house tax'
  THE Government has been accused of singling out the self-employed after it emerged that they will be hit with surcharges if they fail to pay the controversial property tax.

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