This means someone who:

1. Is in employment for the purpose of learning trade, business, profession, office employment or vacation; and
2. Is studying for a qualification accredited by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications; and
3. Receives a reduced rate of pay due to being an apprentice; and
4. Receives a gross pay which does not exceed £195.00 per week (before deductions)

The trainee is regarded as undertaking training from the day on which that course or programme begins to the day that it is completed or s/he abandons it or is dismissed from it.

Please provide a copy of 2 months wage slips or 4 weekly as evidence of pay and a letter from the occupant’s employer confirming the studying of the NVQ, course start and end date.

If the carer is not paid to provide care the following conditions must be met:

• The carer must be resident and provide care for at least 35 hours per week; and
• The carer must not be a partner, or the person being cared for must not be the carers child under 18.
• The person receiving the care must be entitled to:
  1. Higher rate of attendance allowance
  2. High rate care component of Disability Living Allowance
  3. Increase in constant Attendance Allowance under the industrial injuries or war pension schemes
  4. Highest rate of constant Attendance Allowance payable on top of the full-rate disablement benefit paid in respect of an industrial injury
  5. The standard or enhanced rate of the daily living component of personal independence payment under section 78(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012
• More than one person living in the same dwelling can count as a carer.

A carer is disregarded if s/he is:

• Providing care on behalf of an official or charitable body; or
• Employed to provide such care or support by the person to whom it is provided and was introduced by the official or charitable body.
• Employed to do so for at least 24 hours per week.
• In receipt of no more than £44.00 remuneration per week; and
• Resident in premises provided by or on behalf of the official or charitable body, Local Authority, Government Department, or the person cared for to enable the best care to be provided.

Where a resident is aged 18 years or over, but is entitled to child benefit, they are disregarded for Council Tax.

If you are not in receipt of Council Tax Support and/or Housing Benefit please provide evidence of your most recent Child Benefit award, showing the name of the child (over 18) which you are claiming the disregard for.

A foreign language assistant counts as a student if s/he is:

• Appointed a foreign language assistant at a school or other educational establishment in Great Britain.

Please provide proof that the occupant is registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges.

A person is disregarded for discount purposes if s/he is a member or a dependant of a member of certain international headquarters or defence organisations.

Please provide evidence from your HQ along with the date that you entered the UK.

A person is a member of a religious community if:

• Principal occupation of the community consists of prayer, contemplation, education, the relief of suffering, or any combination of these
• Person has no income or capital of their own and is dependent on the community to provide for their material needs. (Not including any pensions)

Please provide confirmation (on letter headed paper) from the religious organisation that property is only occupied by members of religious community whose principal occupation consists of the above description.

A person is disregarded for Council Tax purposes if they are:

• detained in a prison, a hospital or any other place under a court order.
• detained under immigration controls.
• detained under the mental health acts.
• a member of the armed forces detained in accordance with armed forces legislation.

If the person is detained under the Mental Health Act 1984 please provide evidence of this to us.

This disregard applies to any of the following:

• Patients with sole or main residence in an NHS hospital, military hospital, residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home.
• People with sole or main residence in non-self contained accommodation which provides them with personal care for old age, disablement, or past or present alcohol or drug dependence or mental disorder.
• People with sole or main residence in non-self contained accommodation which provides licences (not tenancies) for people of no fixed abode and no settled way of life.
• People with sole or main residence in a bail hostel or probation hostel.

Please provide evidence of moving from main residence and document from place of care confirming residence.

To be disregarded the person must be undertaking a qualifying course of education and under the age of 20

Please provide evidence of qualifying course and person's age

To count as severely mentally impaired the person concerned must have a certificate of confirmation from a registered Medical Practitioner.
In addition to qualify for the disregard the person must be entitled to (though not necessarily in receipt of) one of the following benefits:

• Incapacity benefit - short or long term
• Employment and Support Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Severe Disablement Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance - the highest or middle rate care component
• An increase in disablement pension for constant attendance
• The disability element in working tax credit
• Unemployability supplement (abolished in 1987 but existing claimants remain entitled)
• Constant Attendance Allowance payable under the industrial injuries or war pension schemes
• Unemployability allowance payable under the industrial injuries or war pension schemes
• Income support including a disability premium because of incapacity for work
• Standard or enhanced rate of daily living component of personal independence payment

We will send you a Severe Mental Impairment application form so that we can ensure you are claiming the correct discount on your Council Tax. This form needs to be signed by the GP Doctor and any proof you have of the above benefits.

In order to qualify as a student for Council Tax purposes a person must be enrolled on a full time course of education at a prescribed educational establishment. A full time course of education is one:

• which lasts for at least one academic year of the educational establishment concerned, and
• which normally requires attendance for periods of at least 24 weeks in the academic year, and
• which involves at least 21 hours a week of periods of study, tuition, work experience or a combination of such periods during term time, and
• the course is a specified course

In order to discount this person, please provide a valid stamped student certificate from your university. The certificate must state the following information:

• Start/end dates of the course
• Name of the course
• Number of hours of study per week (at least 21 hours) and weeks per year (at least 24 weeks per year)
• We can take the words full time if hours and weeks are not entered, as long as the 1992 LGFA is mentioned
• Name and address of college/university
• The college/university stamp must be displayed on the certificate (or if customer service have signed to say they have seen the embossed stamp we can accept this)

To be disregarded the person must be undertaking a qualifying course of education. A qualifying course of education is one which:

• Lasts for more than 3 calendar months.
• Is at or below the following - A level, ONC or OND, the Higher Grade of the Scottish Certificate of Education, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 3, ONC or OND.
• Not a correspondence course.
• Not undertaken as a result of the person's office or employment.
• Tuition, supervised exercises, experiments, projects or practical work etc is normally carried out between 8.00am and 5.30pm.
• A person is undertaking such a course throughout both term times and vacations from the date the course begins to the date it is completed, abandoned or the individual is dismissed from it. The person is no longer considered to be undertaking such a course if s/he becomes an apprentice or a youth training trainee.
• Is normally required to study at least 12 hours per week in term times.

Please provide a Student Certificate, evidence of date of birth and Qualifying course, within 14 days to avoid having your single person discount removed.

A person is disregarded for Council Tax purposes if that person is associated, within the meaning of the Visiting Forces Act 1952, with a body, contingent or detachment of the forces of a country, to which the Act applies.

A person has a relevant association with a visiting force if he or she is:

• a member of that force, or a member of a civilian component of the force or
• a dependent of a member, provided that the dependent is not a British citizen or is not ordinarily resident in the UK.

Please provide a copy of your forces identity card, or your passport.