Disregarded persons discount for Council Tax
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Council Tax discounts
You may get a discount if someone in your home is disregarded for the purposes of Council Tax. This depends on the number of adults living at your address.
A person may be disregarded for any of the following reasons:
- People aged 18 or over who Child Benefit is paid for.
- Students.
- Apprentices.
- Student nurses (including student nurses on Project 2000).
- Youth training trainees.
- People in prison or certain types of legal detention centres.
- People who have a severe learning disability, mental illness or form of dementia.
- The wife, husband or dependant of a student who is not a British Citizen and who cannot take paid employment or claim benefits.
- Patients who are staying in hospital over a long term.
- Adults who mainly live in a nursing home or residential home, and who are receiving care or treatment there.
- Certain school leavers under the age of 20 who have finished a course of education between 1 May and 31 October.
- Certain carers providing care or support to someone who is not their child aged under 18 or their husband, wife or partner.
- People living in hostels or with no fixed address.
- Members of religious communities.
- Members (or their dependants) of international headquarters and defence organisations.
- Foreign language assistants who are registered with the Central Bureau.
- People associated with visiting forces.
- Diplomats and senior officials of international organisations, and their husbands or wives.
If someone in your home has a severe learning disability, mental illness or dementia, fill in the Severely Mentally impaired form.
For all other disregards types use our general enquiry form.