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ALLS, HOUSE OR HOME: Whatever your housing situation, RUSU Advice has you covered!

WORDS: JANE TAYLOR, RUSU HOUSING ADVISER

With June on our doorstep, now is the time to start thinking about how to claim your deposit back. If you have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) your deposit should be held in one of the three government schemes:

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme www.tenancydepositscheme.com

Deposit Protect Scheme www.depositprotection.com

Mt Deposits www.mydeposits.co.uk

Due to COVID-19 things may change slightly for some, but broadly speaking the basic principles with deposit companies remain the same. So what should you do? Have you checked that your deposit is registered correctly?

This is easy to do. Deposit certificates are sent via email to you individually or on occasion just to the lead tenant. This will have been sent (roughly) around 30 days from when you paid your deposit.

Call or log on to your deposit company website and check that your deposit is registered correctly. It should name all the tenants in the property and it is important to make sure that the person(s) who registered the deposit are correct. As a rule of thumb, it should be the person who is named as your landlord on your tenancy agreement and/or the person to whom you pay your rent to. 18