BBC To means test over 75 yr olds free t.v.licsence

[Red Lead Ted]

Free TV licences for over-75s could be limited to those who live with someone else also over the age of 75 in a plan being considered by the BBC that could save it about £150m a year.
It comes as the corporation tries to work out how to shoulder the £650m-plus sum of paying for the free licence fees from 2020, which it had to agree to as part of a funding deal with the government.
The BBC is compensated by the Department for Work and Pensions for the television benefit. But from next year the subsidy will be phased out and by 2020 the BBC will foot the whole bill, which will cost the corporation about a fifth of its £3.7bn income.

By not giving free licences to over-75s who live with someone who is not eligible for the benefit – such as a spouse or partner under the age of 75 – it is thought the BBC could save about £150m. That is almost the equivalent of the combined annual budget of Radio 4 and BBC4.
Frontier Economics, the consultancy chaired by the former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell, has been considering for months how the BBC could mitigate some of the cost. Another option is means-testing those eligible for the benefit.


While any limitation to the free deal could be controversial, it is also likely to draw sympathy from some audiences who may be happy to forgo their free licence if it helps secure the future of their favourite public service shows and channels.


This is an absolute disgrace on the part of the BBC, Here is one way they can fill the black hole get shut of this lot. Or scrape BBC 4 Radio and T.V. Completely.

Highest Paid BBC employees
Here's the full list of those earning more than £150,000 in 2017-18:
Gary Lineker - £1,750,000-£1,759,999. ...
Chris Evans - £1,660,000-£1,669,999. ...
Graham Norton - £600,000-£609,999. ...
Steve Wright - £550,000-£559,999. ...
Huw Edwards - £520,000-£529,999. ...
Jeremy Vine - £440,000-£449,999. ...
Nicky Campbell - £410,000-£419,999.


This list of top earners wouldn't get a look in not one of them is worth anything like what there paid. The mind boggles.

[Ken Norton]

Almost certain they will scheme up something to claw it back from the public Terry unfortunately for us

[Lewis McColl]

Keep radio 4 but bin Radio 1 it is rubbish, also the BBC should start showing commercials and raise revenue that way, by doing that they could reduce the licence fee.

[Red Lead Ted]

Lew, The independent T.V. Channels would go under over night if BBC T.V. Started showing commercials, But there is nothing wrong with playing commercials on Radio one the radio station apparently with the biggest audience in radio. Terry.

[Lewis McColl]

Never listen to R1 but do listen to R2 & R4, let's face it the number of repeats on UK TV don't understand why folk should have to pay for something they will have seen 10 times. I listen at times to BBC world news, not often , but another way to save a few quid would be to cut back on the likes of Focus on Africa.

[Captain Kong]

All those nonentities should be sacked and employ people on a average wage.. anyone can press a button and play a rubbish record,
They all talk a load of garbage, Not one intelligent person amongst them. Get rid,


They should do what the Voice of The Desert does in the Gulf, NO DJs, just none stop music with no one burbling in between, Cheap.

[vic mcclymont]

BBC collects approx. £3b per annum in licence fees and makes another £2b p.a. on selling its programmes world wide and it still mad a loss of over £120m last financial year.
Vic

[Keith at Tregenna]

Possibly useful to some ?

As a manager of a residential care home, supported housing or sheltered accommodation, you need to make sure that residents, staff and guests are covered by a TV Licence if they need one.

An accommodation for residential care (ARC) concessionary TV Licence costs £7.50 per room, flat or bungalow. You can download forms to make a new application or add a resident to an existing scheme.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-...re-homes-aud14

[happy daze john in oz]

Gary Liniker, thought he was footballer?

But if we can run our TV service here in Oz with no license why do you have to pay?

[Tony Taylor]

BBC collects approx. £3b per annum in licence fees and makes another £2b p.a. on selling its programmes world wide and it still mad a loss of over £120m last financial year.
Vic

You can pay me an obscene amount of money for reading a script on a teleprompter or send me across the world on a jollies when they already have local representation; could account for some of the mega spending