To qualify for zero fees under other benefits, you must be enrolling on the course(s) to gain employment or to find more sustainable employment.
Valid benefits are listed below:
- Income Support (IS)* - Please show us your official letter/evidence
- Working and Child tax credits (WTC)* - Please show us your original full award certificate from Inland Revenue. It must show that your household income is less than £15,276 per year.
- Pension Credit (PC)* - Please show us your original full award certificate from Inland Revenue. It must show that your household income is less than £15,276 per year.
- Council Tax Benefit / Support (CTR)* - Please show us your official letter/evidence. Please note that we unfortunately can't accept Council Tax exemptions or Council Tax discounts (for example, single occupancy disocunt or full-time student exemption)
- Housing Benefit (HB)* - Please show us your official letter/evidence.
* Your take home pay (disregarding Universal Credit payments and other benefits) is less than £343 a month (sole benefit claim) or £549 a month (benefit claim with partner).
Evidence checklist
Please check that your evidence:
- is dated within the last 6 months from the start date of your course
- shows your name as a claimant
- is presented or emailed to us within 2 weeks or before the course start date (whichever is sooner) if you're enrolling online or by phone.
- is presented to us in one of the following file formats: PDF, JPG, .DOC / .DOCX
- is not a password protected file or document
Email evidence to: Infoline@citylit.ac.uk
Call Enrolments on: 020 7831 7831 (Mondays to Fridays from 10am to 6pm)
Unfortunately, we can't accept Incapacity Benefit, Disability Living Allowance, Child Tax Credit or Carer's Allowance as evidence of entitlement to reduced (concessionary) fees.