Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - politics Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailMPs and peers from across the political divide have stepped-up calls to save pensioners' free TV licences amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Westminster's cross-party group for Ageing and Older People has written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey demanding free TV licences are preserved. The Conservatives pledged at the 2017 election to protect free licences for the over-75s for the rest of that Parliament, which was due to run until 2022. Restrictions it has drawn-up mean only over-75s receiving Pension Credit will be eligible for free licences - meaning 80%, some 3.7 million OAPs, will have to pay. The Mirror is campaigning to save the lifeline, with more than 18,000 readers backing the fight by completing coupons in the paper.

Source: Daily Mirror March 30, 2020 13:37 UTC