• Apply online: Apply for single person discount
• Or download Application for single person discount
• Cancel online: Cancel single person discount

You can claim 25% off your bill if you are the only person over 18 in your household.

• Application for discount for apprentices or youth training trainees

We class you as an apprentice if you are:

• learning a trade, business, profession, office employment or vocation, and
• undertaking training leading to a National Council for Vocational Qualification (NVQ) qualification, and,
• payment is substantially less than expected on qualification, and is less than £195.00 per week.

A youth training trainee is someone under the age of 25 and training under the arrangements of Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973.

• Application for discount for students

A person counts as a student if they are:-

• undertaking a full-time course of education and studying for at least 24 weeks (21 hours per week), or
• under 20 and on a qualifying course, or
• a foreign language assistant

A person who is under the age of 20, and has left school or college on or after the 1 May after taking a qualifying course of education will receive a discount until 1 November.

Spouses of foreign students who are prevented from working or claiming benefit may also receive a discount.

• Application for discount for student nurses

A student nurse is someone who is taking a course which leads to a registration under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979.

• Application for child benefit discount

If you live with somebody 18 years old, who you still receive child benefit for you can get a discount.

• Application for housing benefit and council tax reduction
• About council tax reduction

Council tax reduction replaces council tax benefit from 1 April 2013. This change will affect claimants of working age.

You may be able to claim council tax reduction if you or your partner is on a low income.

People of pension age, living with another adult who is on a low income (who is not a partner or someone who pays rent to you) may be able to claim alternative maximum reduction.

• If you live with somebody 18 years old, who you still receive child benefit for: Application for child benefit discount
• Application for discount for someone with severe mental impairment
• Application for care worker's discount
• If somebody you live with is in prison: Application for discount for people in detention
• Application for discount for members of religious communities

You can claim 25% off your bill if your application is successful.

Contact us to find out more:

• Council tax contacts

• Application for carer's council tax discount

You could claim a 25% discount off your council tax if you provide care for someone. You must:

• live in the same household as the person being cared for; and
• provide care for at least 35 hours a week on average; and
• not be the partner of the person being cared for, or if the person needing care is a child under 18, not be the child's parent; and
• be caring for someone entitled to:
  • higher rate Attendance Allowance; or
  • the highest rate care component of Disability Living Allowance; or
  • an increase in constant attendance allowance under the industrial injuries or war pensions scheme; or
  • the highest rate of constant Attendance Allowance payable on top of full-rate disablement benefit paid for an industrial injury.

You don't have to be receiving Carer Allowance to be eligible for this discount.

More than one person living in the household can count as a carer.

• If you have moved to receive care: Application for exemption for a property left empty by a person needing personal care
• If you have moved to provide care: Application for exemption for a property left empty by a person who is providing care
• If you have been sent to prison, hospital or other place by order of a court: Application for discount for people in detention

You may not have any council tax.

• Contact us to claim: Council tax contacts
• Tell us if your property is unoccupied because it is:
  • against the law to occupy it
  • a clergy dwelling
  • owned by a student
  • owned by a charity
  • repossessed
  • owned by someone who has been made bankrupt
  • a caravan pitch or boat mooring
  • an annexe, like a granny flat
  • waiting for probate or letters of administration to be granted.

You may not have to pay any council tax.

The length of time you don't have to pay for can vary.

• Contact us to claim: Council tax contacts
• Tell us if your property is:
  • a student halls of residence
  • occupied by full time students
  • armed forces barracks, messes and married quarters
  • occupied by a person(s) under 18 years old
  • the main residence of a person entitled to diplomatic privileges and immunities.

You may not have to pay any council tax.

You can also claim if your property is occupied by a person(s) who is(are) severely mentally impaired:

• Application for discount for someone with severe mental impairment

• Application for exemption for a dependent relative
• Tell us if your annexe is occupied by a dependent relative who is:
  • aged 65 years or older
  • disabled
  • severely mentally impaired.

You may not have to pay council tax for the annexe, or for a self contained part of your property which is occupied by the dependent relative.

• Application for disabled person's reduction
• Tell us what alterations you have made to your property to meet the needs of a disabled person.

Your property may be reduced by one valuation band, which means you will pay less council tax.

If your property is in valuation band A the reduction will be 1/9th of the band D charge.

• How much we charge per council tax band

Adaptations that could qualify for a discount include:

• a room other than a bathroom, kitchen or toilet which is used mainly by the disabled person
• an additional bathroom or kitchen used by the disabled person
• extra space inside the home for a wheelchair.

• Contact us for a list of homes and hostels where you do not have to pay council tax: Council tax contacts

Alternatively, you can claim 50% off your bill if you and everyone else in your household is:

• staying in a care home, or
• living in certain hostels.