If you wish to claim a reduction in your Council Tax bill, please go to Council Tax - Online Forms.
If you are a student, student nurse, or an apprentice, you may be entitled to a discount on your Council Tax.
For Council Tax purposes, full-time students and those on certain apprenticeship schemes, are not counted when looking at the number of adults living in a property. This may mean that the Council Tax bill is reduced by 25%, depending on who else lives with you.
Students
To qualify you must be either:
- attending a full time course of further or higher education at a university, college or other educational establishment - the course must last for at least 1 year and involve at least 21 hours attendance per week for at least 24 weeks in the year
- under 20 years of age and attending a course which lasts more than 3 calendar months and involves at least 12 hours of attendance per week between 8am and 5.30pm.
You will need to ask your college or university for a student certificate, your application cannot be processed without this.
You can photograph or scan this and upload it with your application form.
Student nurses
As a student nurse you can get a discount on your council tax bill if you are taking a degree course which, if successfully completed, would lead to employment as a nurse, midwife or health visitor.
Apprentices
An apprentice will be disregarded if they are:
- employed for the purpose of learning a trade, profession, business, office, employment or vocation
- undertaking a programme of training leading to an accredited qualification
- receiving a salary or allowance of less than £195 per week, and that salary or allowance is substantially less than he/she would expect to receive when qualified
If you are an apprentice you will need to:
- provide a recent wage slip
- ask your employer to provide a letter/complete an employers certificate confirming your status as an apprentice