Concessionary fee

You may be eligible to pay the reduced (concessionary) fee if you can provide evidence that you are receiving:

• Employment and Support Allowance or Jobseeker’s Allowance
Please provide a recent letter from JobCentre Plus/Department for Work and Pensions confirming that you are in receipt of benefit. We cannot accept Jobseeker’s Allowance appointment booklets as valid evidence.


If you are not in receipt of one of the above, then we may also accept evidence of:

• Income Support
Please show us your official letter/evidence.

• Working Tax Credit or Pension Guarantee Credit
Please provide the original full award certificate, detailing a household income of less than £15,276

• Housing or Council Tax Benefit
Please show us your official letter/evidence. Please note that Council Tax exemptions and Council Tax discounts are not classified as Council Tax Benefit.

• An unwaged dependent of a person in receipt of one of the above benefits
Please provide evidence as outlined above.

If you are enrolling in person, by post or by fax, you must provide current evidence of your entitlement each time you enrol. If you are enrolling by telephone, you must provide current evidence of your entitlement before the course starts or within two weeks of enrolment, whichever is sooner.

Your evidence checklist!
Your evidence must:
• be dated within the last 6 months
• show that your benefit claim is on-going
• show your name as a claimant (or a dependent)

If you are finding it difficult to obtain your evidence, you may find it helpful to use our City Lit pro-forma, in place of your benefit letter. Simply bring this to your benefits agency or JobCentre Plus, who will sign and stamp this to confirm your income-based benefits. Download now

*We cannot unfortunately accept Incapacity Benefit, Disability Living Allowance, Child Tax Credit or Carer's Allowance as evidence of entitlement to reduced (concessionary) fees.  We also generally do not offer discounts for full time students. 

Changes to concessionary fees for 2011/12
Due to changes in government rules about who is entitled to claim a concessionary fee, we reserve the right to limit the number of concessionary fee payers on any course and/or to change our guidelines on entitlement to concessionary fees mid-academic year.  If you have any concerns, please contact our enrolment team on 020 7831 7831.

Financial help is available
If you work and have a very low income, but are not entitled to pay the concessionary fee, you may be able to apply for help towards part of the fee. Find out more here.

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