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The move will mean the 7,000 people who apply for a free licence each month will be able to do so more quickly online or over the phone. The BBC last year limited the free TV licences to over-75s ...
The BBC's new ruler to scrap free TV licenses for over-75s has been widely condemned. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Committee chairman Lord True said benefits must be rebalanced towards the young to prepare the country for 100-year lifespans.
Television licence sales figures were quoted by the BBC to be 25.562 million in the year 2014–15, including 4.502 million concessionary licences for the over 75s, [58] which were paid for by the UK government. The equivalent figures for the year 2013–14 were 25.478 million total licences including 4.328 million licences for the over 75s. [59]
The BBC announces it will end blanket free television licenses for the over-75s from 2020, affecting around 3.7 million people. From 2020 only households where one occupant receives the Pension Credit benefit will be eligible for a free TV licence. [134] ITV launches Week 24 of its "Creates" Ident package in 2019, designed by Rabiya Choudhry.
The licence must be paid for premises that have any equipment that can potentially decode TV signals, regardless of whether they view RTÉ's content. The licence is free to anyone over the age of 70, to some people over 66, to people on a disability allowance, and people who are blind (these licences are paid for by the state).
99-year-old World War Two veteran Victor Gregg has hit out at the BBC for scrapping free TV licenses for over-75s, just two days after the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Text at the end of the film states the frame was never recovered and that no plays by Bunton were ever produced, but that, in 2000, TV licences were made free to those over age 75. By August 2020, just before the film was first released, the policy of free TV licences for the over 75s had ended.