Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThe BBC and ministers should have struck a deal to save free TV licences for the over-75s, a senior Conservative admitted today. He said that “morally” he believed “the licence fee now is on the way out, over a period of time”. But the BBC had already been handed responsibility for funding the lifeline from June 2020, under a deal agreed in 2015. It said keeping licences free for all over-75s would cost £745million by 2021-22. “Around 1.5 million households could get free TV licences if someone is over 75 and receives Pension Credit.

Source: Daily Mirror September 09, 2020 15:23 UTC