You might be able to apply for a discount on your Council Tax bill if you or someone you live with has a severe mental impairment to intelligence and social functioning, which appears to be permanent.
Conditions that might cause a severe mental impairment could include (but not limited to) people who have been diagnosed with:
- severe and enduring mental health issues
- Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of dementia
- severe learning difficulties
You'll need to:
- get a certificate to say that you are severely mentally impaired from a medical professional, such as your GP
- prove your eligibility for one of the following benefits:
- Armed forces independence payment
- Attendance Allowance
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance (higher or middle rate care component)
- Disability Working Allowance
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Income Support (which includes a disability premium)
- Increase in Disablement pension (due to constant attendance being needed)
- Personal Independence Payment (standard or enhanced daily living component)
- Severe Disablement Allowance
- Unemployability Allowance
- Unemployability Supplement
- Universal Credit (including an element for a limited capability for work or limited capability for work and work-related activity)
Each person must complete their own application and provide a medical certificate from the doctor.
If a person is unable to complete their own application, a friend or relative can complete the application on their behalf.
If you qualify as severely mentally impaired
You'll get a 100% discount if you qualify as severely mentally impaired and one of the following applies:
- you live on your own
- any other adults in your household either qualify as severely mentally impaired or are full time students
If you live with someone who is severely mentally impaired
You'll get a 25% discount if you live with someone who qualifies as severely mentally impaired and either:
- there are no other adults in your household
- everyone else in your home is disregarded
Apply for a discount or an exemption
After you have applied for money off your Council Tax
While we're looking at your application, please keep paying your current Council Tax bill as usual.
What happens next:
- If your application is successful, we will apply the discount to your account and send you a new bill.
- We will check your entitlement regularly. If you don't reply to our review letters, your discount may be removed.
Keep Us Updated:
- Please tell us about any changes in your circumstances within 21 days. Changes could affect your discount. If you don't let us know, you could be fined or taken to court.
- Its quick and easy to report a change online:
Report a change in circumstances or call us on 0300 1234 141