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A paper version of the Switched Off campaign petition for you to print off and send back

must demand the Government takes back responsibility for funding free TV licences for everyone over 75. Please send back to Freepost, Age UK Campaigns *We will never sell your data and we promise to keep

TV licences briefing.pdf

are in receipt of Pension Credit would remove the concession from the great majority of people aged 75+. According to the BBC’s Equality Impact Assessment, just 900,000 households would receive it and 3 ... average the poorest tenth of over 75s would lose 2.1% of their income.i What’s more, the analysis finds that just 11% of the poorest tenth of households containing someone aged 75+ would retain the concession

Age UK - The Cost of Cold - Non-MP Version.pdf

Parliamentary Briefing - Switched Off (free TV licences for the over 75s) - July 2020.pdf

Briefing Switched Off: Save Free TV for Older People July 2020 Background Since 2000 any individual aged 75 or over has been entitled to a concessionary TV licence. In 2015, the Government decided to pass responsibility ... people will be able to take. The Department for Work and Pensions estimates that 39% of those aged 75 and older who are eligible for Pension Credit, 590,000 (2 in 5 people), do not receive it. - Loneliness:

Parliamentary Briefing - Switched Off (free TV licences for the over 75s) - January 2020.pdf

Switched Off: Save Free TV for Older People January 2020 Background Since 2000 any individual aged 75 or over had been entitled to a concessionary TV licence. In 2015, the government decided to pass responsibility ... concession from June 2020. From this time the BBC will scrap the universal free TV licence for over 75s but will continue the concession for those in receipt of Pension Credit. This means that 3.7 million