Insurance-Based Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme Concession Contract C

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Lot 1: The Housing Act 2004 requires a landlord to protect a tenant's deposit from misappropriation in a government approved tenancy deposit (TDP) scheme for a home rented on an assured shorthold tenancy that started after 6 April 2007. Insurance-based TDP schemes allow landlords or letting agents to hold the physical deposits and charge a fee that is used to buy insurance to protect the deposits. A tenant may make a claim to the scheme should his or her deposit not be returned at the end of the tenancy in accordance with statutory deadlines. All TDP schemes are required to provide alternative dispute resolution as an alternative to the courts in the event of a dispute between tenant and landlord at the end of the tenancy. This notice relates to one of three existing suppliers which each offer an insurance-based scheme. The schemes compete with one another for customers.