Apply for or remove a single person discount
Complete this form if:
- you are the only person aged 18 or over living in your property to claim a single person's discount
- or if someone has moved into your property and you wish to end your discount.
Please do not use this form to notify us of a death in your household or if you are Sponsoring a Person from Ukraine.
Where there has been a death, please go to Tell Us Once on the gov.uk website and complete the form.
Sponsoring a Person from Ukraine, does not affect your liability so there is no need to complete a form.
People in the groups listed below do not count towards the number of adults treated as living at a property:
- full-time students, non-British spouses of students, student nurses, apprentices earning no more than £195 per week and Youth Training trainees
- patients living in a hospital
- people who are being looked after in care homes
- people who are severely mentally impaired
- people staying in certain hostels or night shelters
- 18 and 19 year-olds who are at, or have just left, school
- care workers working for no more than £44 per week
- people caring for someone with a disability who is not a spouse, partner, or child under 18
- members of visiting forces and certain international institutions
- diplomats, or people who benefit from diplomatic immunity
- discount may be available to a relative living in a self contained annex of the main dwelling
- members of religious communities (monks and nuns)
- people in prison (except those in prison for non-payment of Council Tax or a fine).
If your bill shows that a discount has been allowed, you must tell the council of any change of circumstances which affects your entitlement. If you fail to do so you may be required to pay a financial penalty.
Single person discount review
Each year we carry out a single person discount review. This is to ensure that you are still entitled to the reduction.
We will send you a letter to ask you to provide some information. If you fail to respond, your discount may be stopped.
If you were not entitled to all or part of the reduction, we will send you a backdated revised council tax bill.