Ds is a second year student who is on the verge of suspending his studies for various reasons the main one being to sort his mental health issues out. He would move back home
He's in private rented accommodation with 3 others, and we appreciate he's liable for his share of the rent until the tenancy ends in June. It's unlikely he'd be able to find anyone else as house is tip and other tenants unlikely to make it easy to find someone else
All 4 in the house are full time students, but if he suspended studies would he then be liable for council tax until the official end of the tenancy as he's likely to still be paying rent even though not living there any more? It's a well located 4 bed house somewhere expensive so bill could be huge!
He's planning on suspending rather than fully quitting to keep door open to return, but will also be exploring transferring somewhere else that would enable him to live at home. Not sure whether this would affect council tax, if he returned next academic year he should be able to get a place in halls
Does anyone have any experience of this? Sounds potentially even more expensive than we thought, not to mention the fee implications (think second liability point was today) but he's not in a good place at the moment