Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler’s Watch-outs of the Week 18 January 2021 - 08:29 If you have defaulted on your loans and accounts and you are receiving a barrage of SMSes or calls from debt collectors, here’s what you need to know. Image: 123rf.com/Jason Cox
In this weekly segment of bite-sized chunks of useful information, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler summarises news you can use:
Need a loan? Here’s what not to do
Never has there been more anxiety in “Januworry”, which means it’s feeding frenzy time for loan sharks.
If you type “get a loan” into Google, the searches which come up are heartbreaking: “Get a loan with bad credit/without a job/without a credit check/without a pay slip.”
Santam to start processing business interruption claims in wake of court rulings
6 January 2021 8:31 PM
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Santam finally accepts it s liable for contingent business interruption claims. Wendy Knowler on the pandemic s insurance sagas.
Insurance companies refusal to pay business interruption claims related to the Covid-19 pandemic has seen a slew of cases taken to court.
According to the argument put forward by some insurers it s the lockdown and not the pandemic itself that led to clients business interruption.
The only short-term insurer which initially paid out claims with no quibble. was OUTsurance. They admittedly did have a very small slice of that particular pie, but they got a lot of kudos for doing that.
Beaches in the Garden Route closed, what are your rights as a consumer?
This move saw countless cancellations of bookings in areas like Knysna, Hartenbos, Mosselbay & George.
It s thought that the decision to close beaches in the Garden Route could have a devastating result for the local economy in areas where beaches were closed.
Carl spoke to consumer journalist, Wendy Knowler to find out what right consumers have if beaches in the area where they were planning to go had been closed. More on KFM
Is your funeral policy legit, know how to buy a wedding dress & don t slip up Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler’s Watch-outs of the Week 18 December 2020 - 15:43 Before you say yes to the dress, ask all the pertinent questions - and make sure that you have very strong evidence of what you ordered, in case you get something different. Image: Supplied/Milkos
In this weekly segment of bite-sized chunks of useful information, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler summarises news you can use:
Are your funeral policies legit?
In SA, funeral policies are aggressively marketed, and as a result many people have several funeral policies.