Discounts and exemptions
Contents
- Introduction
- Single person discount
- Student
- Severely mentally impaired person (SMI)
- Care leavers
- Carer
- Apprentice, youth trainee or skill seeker
- Disability banding relief
- Person in hospital or care home
- Person in detention or prison
- People who provide care or who are cared for
- Person for whom child benefit is payable
- People under the age of 18
- Unoccupied and unfurnished property
- Unoccupied and furnished property discount (not a second home)
- Changes for second homes
- Estate of deceased person
- Spouse, civil partner, or dependent of foreign student
- School leaver
- Religious communities
- Manse or similar dwelling
- Dwelling repossessed by a mortgage lender
- Job-related dwellings
- Occupation prohibited by law/dwellings empty under statute
- Trustee in bankruptcy
- Voluntary care worker
- Visiting forces accommodation
- Ukraine refugees
Carer
Persons who provide care can be considered to be disregarded for council tax purposes.
You will need to apply for this discount as it is not automatically granted.
Who can apply?
As a carer, you may be eligible for a council tax discount if you’re living with the person, you care for and they are not your partner or your child who is under 18 years old.
You must be providing care for at least 35 hours per week and the person being cared for must receive the highest rate of attendance allowance, disability living allowance (care) or enhanced rate of personal independence payment (daily living component) or enhanced rate adult disability payment (daily living component) or highest rate of care component of child disability payment.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
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If the only people resident over 18 years old, are you and the person you care for, you will receive a 25% council tax discount.
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If the person you care for is severely mentally impaired, and disregarded for the purposes of council tax you will receive a 50% council tax discount.
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If there are three people residents over 18 years old, one is severely mentally impaired and one is their carer, they will receive a 25% council tax discount.
If there are four adult residents, over 18 years old, one is severely mentally impaired, one is carer, but the other two residents are not disregarded from council tax, there is no entitlement to any council tax discount.
We periodically review all exemptions and discounts to confirm eligibility.
How do I apply?
To apply for this discount, sign in or register on our Open Portal account:
Supporting evidence required
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photocopy of benefit award letter, or
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bank statement detailing the benefit in payment.
Please submit the necessary supporting evidence for your application. Failure to provide the requested documentation may result in the assessment of your application being delayed or rejected.
If you are awarded a discount and the circumstances that led to that discount change, you must tell us.
