Single Person Discount & Other Discounts
Single Person Discount & Other Discounts
Last updated 22.02.23 12:00
Single Person Discount
Your Council Tax assessment is based on two or more people living in a property. If only one person over the age of 18 is living there, a 25% discount is available.
Apply - Single Person Discount
Other Discounts
Some people are not counted when we work out how many people live in your property - they are disregarded.
You can receive:
• a 25% discount if all but one person living in your home is disregarded.
• a 50% discount if everyone living in your home is disregarded.
The following people are disregarded:
• people over 18 years of age in respect to whom child benefit is still payable
• students
• student nurses
• apprentices on a low wage
• youth training trainees
• prisoners
• long term hospital patients
• people in residential care or nursing homes
• carers or care workers who meet certain criteria
• members of religious communities who have no income
• members of international headquarters or defence organisations
• certain school leavers under 20 years of age