Comments on: How Over-75s Can Claim Pension Credit to Keep Their Free TV Licence https://www.poundsandsense.com/how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence A UK blog covering personal finance and much more from an over-60 perspective Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nick https://www.poundsandsense.com/how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence/#comment-1247 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:57:58 +0000 https://www.poundsandsense.com/?p=5150#comment-1247 In reply to johnplatinumgoss.

Thanks, John. Very bad luck about the free TV licence being abolished for over-75s just as you become eligible for it. It is shocking that older people who have paid into the system all their lives are being treated this way.

]]> By: johnplatinumgoss https://www.poundsandsense.com/how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence/#comment-1246 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:20:51 +0000 https://www.poundsandsense.com/?p=5150#comment-1246 My wife told me as soon as I became eligible for a free TV licence (that is this year) they would do away with it. Spot on my dear. Thankfully I don’t qualify for pension credit but this would have been a welcome perk nevertheless. I used to go to a Russian language class and envied those older people who had a free concession. Now my time has come it is no longer free. I got a grant for my first degree (1980-83) but for my second, which I did part-time, I had to pay. It was not cheap.

What has happened to my beloved country? The poor, sick and elderly get poorer, sicker and older (I know nothing can be done about ageing) while the super-rich have wealth beyond measure.

]]> By: Nick https://www.poundsandsense.com/how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence/#comment-1158 Fri, 29 May 2020 17:08:54 +0000 https://www.poundsandsense.com/?p=5150#comment-1158 In reply to Invisibly Me.

Thanks very much, Caz. If you’ll forgive me being a little pedantic, receiving pension credit doesn’t exempt you from needing a TV licence, but you get a free one.

It’s still very disappointing that many over-75s who just miss out on qualifying to receive pension credit will have to start paying for a licence again. But on the positive side, pension credit is a massively under-claimed benefit, so hopefully this will encourage more older people (or their relatives/carers) to apply for it. Not only will they then receive a free TV licence, they will get useful extra cash and other benefits as well.

]]> By: Invisibly Me https://www.poundsandsense.com/how-over-75s-can-claim-pension-credit-to-keep-their-free-tv-licence/#comment-1157 Fri, 29 May 2020 16:18:57 +0000 https://www.poundsandsense.com/?p=5150#comment-1157 Wow, I never realised the pension credit would exempt you from the TV licence – this is a fantastic post, Nick, this could be so helpful for a lot of folks! Dirty dogs at the BBC trying to take it away from the over 75s and then there’s rumours of more chargeable content for iPlayer too, shameful. x

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