Disregarded persons discount for Council Tax

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.

Apply for a disregarded persons discount