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Housing Support Products - Pet Bonds

Map has been updated to include information about Pet Bonds. This reflects changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 from 1 December 2025. It clarifies when MSD can consider a Bond Grant for Pet Bond costs for a new tenancy, during a tenancy, and at renewal of a tenancy. There is no new assistance for Pet Bonds, and the maximum Bond Grant hasn't been increased. See:

• Assessing a Bond Grant

Residence criteria

A new topic has been added in core policy setting out the standard residence criteria that apply to most types of assistance. See:

• Residence

This common information will be removed from other parts of Map, which will retain only the residence rules that are particular or exceptional for that assistance. These updates will start with main benefits in the next few months.