TV Licences: Up to 3.7 million over-75s to pay licence fee
According to the BBC, around 900,00 households are claiming Pension Credit, which is is a non-taxable weekly top up for pensioners based on a person's income.
"We think it's fair to those over 75 but also to all our audiences for whom there was no appetite for the level of cuts that would have been necessary if the concession had been extended," he added."We know we have a loyal audience over the age of 75 and we think many of them will understand the difficult position we are in."Free licences were given to the over-75s as part of a Government programme to reduce pensioner poverty.
This then is a compromise, around a third of the cost will be born by the BBC and two thirds passed on to 'wealthier' pensioners. The elderly are by far the biggest consumers of the BBC's output, the average age of BBC TV's audience is now over 62, the question is how far younger licence fee payers should subsidise these older viewers.
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