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Getting Help With Your Rates

If you are struggling to pay your rate bill, you may be entitled to

some help.

This help comes in the form of a series of benefits, relief schemes and allowances. The lists below provide an overview of what help is available to what groups in society.

To find out more detailed information, click on the appropriate link under the heading:

Who can get help?
Help available
Application forms

Who can get help?

Benefits Adviser

Answer questions anonymously online about your savings, income and outgoings, to get benefit advice for you, your family or for someone else.

Benefits adviser homepage

Help available

Application forms

Information Leaflets

Relief for full time students, trainees, under 18s and those leaving care (ETLC)

Please note that this scheme closed on 1 December 2009. No new applications will now be accepted.

Please click on the link below to see the information leaflet on the closure of the scheme:

Information leaflet - closure of the ETLC scheme - (PDF 134KB)

Non-domestic properties

While for non-domestic properties the following rate relief and exemption schemes are available

Automatic Telling Machines (rural areas)
Charitable exemptions;
Farm Diversification Scheme;
Hardship relief;
Industrial derating;
Non-domestic vacant rating;
Sport and recreation;