Over 75S Tv Licence

[Ember]

Not sure when I should purchase a license, no help from the Post Office, teller had not a clue

[Buenchico]

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/for-your-home/aged-74-and-over-aud3

[Baldric]

https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence

[Buenchico]

PS: The Post Office lost the BBC contract to sell TV licences back in 2006, so it's hardly surprising that their staff don't know anything about them!

[jamesnan]

You register when you are 74 so that the free licence comes straight in when you reach 75, and if necessary a short term licence can be arranged.

[Canary42]

The £725m cost which the Government used to pay has now been dumped on the BBC by Austerity Tories.

The BBC are naturally finding this extra cost very difficult so may discontinue the free licences. This will trigger a further salvo from the Tories against the BBC whom they wish to eradicate.

[goodgoalie]

I don't see why those over the age of 75 should get free Tv licences, regardless of their income/ability to pay. Same with the winter fuel allowance - do Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger need it? No, but they get it.

[anotheoldgit]

Some of us have paid a licence fee even from the days when one had to pay a radio licence. I think now that we have reached the end of our years we should be granted a free licence.

[Rockrose]

I think the TV licence should be means tested, there are plenty getting free licence that can afford to pay for it.

[bednobs]

many over 75s will not have reached the end of their years tho AOG - they may still have 25+ years left!
personally i think working 44 year olds should get it for free, but i would say that wouldn't i :)

[sunny-dave]

If (and for me it’s a big if) you accept that the free over 75 licence should stay, then it should only be for households where ALL resident adults are over 75 - I see no logic in letting a multi-generational family all watch for free because Granny happens to live with them.

[Rockrose]

That's a good point SD - but I don't see why you should get it free just because your old.
As we are so often told that the older generation worked hard to save for their retirement - in that case they can afford to pay it!

[douglas9401]

I, on the other hand, see no reason to keep funding simpering, self-satisfied drones like those foisted on us by BBC breakfast news and The One Show.
The odd Attenborough and Ken Bruce doesn't justify this outdated tax.

[hereIam]

I hope the free over 75 licence continues ...

[New Judge]

“I don't see why those over the age of 75 should get free Tv licences, regardless of their income/ability to pay. Same with the winter fuel allowance - do Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger need it? No, but they get it.”

“I think the TV licence should be means tested, there are plenty getting free licence that can afford to pay for it.”

Then it’s back to the same old chestnut: what are taxpayers paying in for when they contribute heavily during their working lives? Are they paying to fund “perks” for those who could not or would not fund for their own retirements? Or are they contributing to their own retirement “package” which would include a decent State pension (the UK’s is among the lowest in the developed world and is certainly the most iniquitous in Europe when comparing benefits paid in relation to contributions made), a free TV licence (ten years after they have retired) and a free bus pass?

If it has to be both then if they fund the former then it’s hardly fair that they should be denied the same perks themselves.

[bobbie22]

I paid a full national insurance stamp and income tax from the age of 16 to 62. i now get a state pension and a works pension (which I also paid for) however, because of this, i still pay income tax. so, yes, i have a free TV licence, and a bus pass. whoopy do.

[Bazile]

Who was that abe'r on here , who was always going on about the TV licence ?