Membership

Financial hardship

The Subscriptions Team should be contacted if the member wishes to pursue the scheme detailed below. The Subscription Team undertakes to maintain the confidentiality of any information given and this will not be disclosed to any third party.

The scheme is designed to help those members who find themselves with a sudden significant reduction in income.

The Subscription Team will issue the 2013 Subscription Concession Claim Form for the member to complete. The form does not need to be returned to the Subscriptions Team until 31 May 2013. In the meantime the member is not required to make any payment, will not incur any late payment charges and will not have any change in status or benefits the membership.

The Subscriptions Team will then write to the member sometime in June or July to confirm the reduced subscription and agree how and when payment should be made.

The form is not for the use of those members who:

have voluntarily given up their main source of income, except for voluntary redundancy or if personal circumstances are preventing them from working
have started maternity leave during the 12 months ended 31 December 2012

On the form, the member is asked to indicate the reason why they are making this claim.

They will then be asked to select a six month period between 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013. The member then calculates their income from all sources which includes:

Own net salary/wages
Unemployment benefit
Disability, sickness and other state benefits, including income support, housing benefit, etc
Private insurance
Pensions
Interest on bank & building society accounts and dividends
Any other income, but not including any final redundancy payment

If this income is below £9,685 then this form will not provide the member any reduction of their subscription. They should contact the Subscriptions Team to discuss further.

The member's subscription fee will be: