Council Tax Discounts

Full time students and student nurses

If you are a student you can be disregarded for council tax purposes providing you are:

• Undertaking a full time course of further or higher education at a University, college or other educational establishment
• The course must be of a least one year's duration and involve at least 21 hours of study per week for at least 24 weeks in the year
• If you are under 20 years of age and attending a course which lasts more than 3 calendar months and involves at least 12 hours attendance per week between 8.00 am and 5.30 pm. The course must not be taken by correspondence or in consequence of a person's job and must not be a course of higher education.

 

Student nurses

A person is a student nurse on a particular day if, on that day, they are undertaking a course which would (if successfully completed) lead to a first registration in the Nurses’ Part or the Midwives’ Part of the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001(79).

A person is regarded as undertaking a course on a particular day if the day falls within the relevant period for that course.

Apply for a student discount