Patients resident in Hospital

If your sole or main residence is in a hospital you may be disregarded for Council Tax purposes.

In these cases it will be the hospital that is liable to pay Council Tax, but the bill may qualify for discount disregard.

A hospital is classed as: An NHS hospital within the meaning of the National Health Service Acts or a military hospital.

To apply please complete our form below. If you are unable to use this form, please see our Contact Us (this link opens in a new window) for ways of getting in touch

Red asterisk denotes a required answer.

Council Tax Account number

Contact Details of liable person

Title

First

Last

Address

City/Town

ZIP/Postal Code

Email address (email notifications will go to this address)

Telephone Number

Hospital Patients

For guidance, the hospital must be

i) A Health Service Hospital, within the meaning of the NHS Act 1977. (Private Nursing or Mental Care Homes that are licensed under the Registered Homes Act 1984, fall under the Patients in Nursing or Care Homes disregard for which a separate form is available.)

ii) Sole or main residence as used in the above context is generally interpreted as those who do not retain their own homes and will remain in Hospital on a foreseeable permanent basis, and excludes those who stay in Hospital for only short periods. However all cases will be treated individually, and the Billing Authority will make a decision whether to disregard the person named for discount purposes after examining the circumstances and relevant regulations affecting the claim.

Name of person to be disregarded

Title

First

Last

Please provide the following information about the Hospital

Name of Hospital
Hospital ward name/number
Address of Hospital including postcode
Hospital contact number
Email address (if provided)

Date of Admission

If you have one, please attach a copy of the discharge from hospital form you received. This may be applicable if you have now moved on to a care home from a period of living in hospital

One file only.
15 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, png, bmp, eps, tif, pict, psd, txt, rtf, html, odf, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, xml, avi, mov, mp3, ogg, wav, bz2, dmg, gz, jar, rar, sit, svg, tar, zip.
30 MB limit per form.

Declaration

Are you the liable person for this property?

Name & Relationship of Person completing the form

WARNING - It is a criminal offence for a ratepayer to give false information when making an application related to Council Tax or Business Rates

I confirm that all the details above are correct and I will contact the Council immediately of any changes

I can confirm that I am the only resident over 18 years of age in the dwelling

I agree

I will inform the Council as soon as there is any change in my circumstances which could affect my Council Tax Discount. If I fail to do so, I may be liable to a £70 penalty.

I agree to this statement

For the purposes of current data protection laws the information you supply the Council as part of your application will be used for the purposes of dealing with your request and retained as per our published corporate data protection privacy policy which can be found on the East Herts District Council Data Protection page (this link opens in a new window).

From time to time this information may be shared with other Council departments and / or outside partners to process your request as effectively as possible. Please confirm you have read the above privacy notice

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