"Julian Knight MP, Conservative chairman of the House of Commons culture select committee, called the situation "a mess" and said the new regime would be "a body blow to millions of British pensioners".Broadcaster and Labour peer Dame Joan Bakewell said some older people could and should pay - but there is a "suffering middle" who will struggle. General election 2019: Johnson 'could look at' abolishing BBC licence fee . You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. The licence fee's existence is guaranteed until at least 31 December … And one of the problems about Pension Credit is that so much of the money goes unclaimed because older people don’t like being described as the poorest.“Let’s say ‘the people who find it most difficult’ should therefore go and claim this Pension Credit, which they have earned with a lifetime of survival and getting through the tough times’, and the BBC should make programmes with the money to make sure that older people still enjoy [its] output and still feel valued.”Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the outgoing director-general, previously said that free licences for over-75s was unfair to the young.The BBC’s decision to scrap them relied on a report published by Frontier Economics, an organisation chaired by Lord O’Donnell, the former Cabinet Secretary. 15 December 2019. These are external links and will open in a new windowThe cost of the annual television licence fee will increase by £3, from £154.50 to £157.50, from 1 April 2020.In 2016, the government said the fee would rise in line with inflation every year for five years from 1 April 2017.The latest increase comes amid debate around the future of the licence fee, after And it comes a week after Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, the BBC's highest paid presenter, Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: "A £3 a year increase to the TV licence fee may not sound much but will be yet another blow to the hundreds of thousands of over-75s who will struggle to afford a TV licence from June.
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Please review our BBC plans to collect over-75s licence fee already in chaos Calls to the TV Licensing centre are not being answered because the Covid crisis has led to reduced staffing The charity has now urged the BBC and the government to "urgently sit down and agree on a solution to keep TV licences free".Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said many older people would either have to give up their TV, which is "more of a lifeline than ever", or other essential purchases.
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