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.