Axing free TV licences for OAPs could slap UK with £1.6bn benefits bill

THE decision to scrap free TV licences for over-75s could end up adding up to 1.6billion to the benefits bill, it was revealed.Axing free TV licences for over-75s could slap the UK with a £1.6bn benefits billBut the Office for Budget Responsibility warned the looming cut could spark a stampede of pensioners who have so far not claimed the benefit to get it.

This could send the welfare bill soaring as currently there is a whopping £1.6bn a year of unclaimed pension benefit. This would be far more than the £745million a year saving the Government made by handing responsibility for the benefit top the Beeb.when governments come up with clever ways to save money”.

The OBR report states: “It is relatively unusual for a government to delegate parameters of welfare policy to a broadcasting company in an attempt to save money, and it is perhaps not surprising that this may have unintended consequences. “The BBC’s decision to means-test free TV licences via a link to pension credit receipt may well raise welfare spending by more than it reduces BBC spending, particularly once the BBC spends the money it saves by means testing.

Why cannot the BBC work within its budget, that it gets from the 18-74’s. If it means cutting wages or losing a radio station so be it. Stop the gravy train 🚂

Well we pay enough tax

Pension credit will be next benefit to go

Stop foreign aid. Put it back into education and elderly and uk hospitals.

What utter tosh. Introduce adverts or make it subscription. Other channels manage and produce often better programmes. The only way if would fail is if they are a poor business model which given they feed on the cash cow that us the public it wouldn’t surprise me.

Scrap the licence fee, bbc goes subscription but you pay for the channels you want but over75's households all free.

the whole thing wants abolishing

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