Would you be willing to pay more for your TV licence to ensure it stays free for over 75s?

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I blinking would.

I know it's be a administrative impossiblity to achieve, but volunteering to pay an extra £5/£10 per year? Could it work?

Yes, because my dm is not likely to receive pension credit, yet she is not wealthy. she has her own house but that is her nest egg, at 84 she cannot possibly earn more money and has no idea how long she has left. She eats like a bird anyway. She is not a spendthrift.she is careful with her money, as are plenty of other over 75 year olds. they have made do and mended all their lives. unlike today's throw away society.

No, I dont fancy contributing to my fathers TV licence. He really doesn't need it.
Scrap the over 75 exemption, and add £5 a week to pension credit for over 75s.

she has her own house but that is her nest egg,

Nest egg for what?

YABU. No, I wouldn't pay extra, because I believe that nobody should pay the TV licence. I wish that everybody across the country would take a stand and stop paying. They can't take us all to court surely?

How archaic is it, that we have to pay to watch a screen in our living room, it is ridiculous in today's digital age.

I still pay one because I do watch a lot of recorded stuff and can't quite bring myself to go to Netflix/Amazon only.

Eleanor my parents are the total opposite of make do and mend. They have never been like that. They're not flashy or brash but they do like nice, good quality things.

Nest egg for what?
for the future, kind of obvious

Nest egg for what?
for the future, kind of obvious

Not really. Most people have a nest egg for retirement do they not???? Given she's 84 (and I hope has many years left) at what point does the nest egg come into play? Because having worked with the elderly for a good few years my experience is that the nest egg is basically a child's inheritance.... which is a whole other can of worms really.

Perhaps she could break into the nest egg to fund her tv license.

Absolutely not.

The older generation are significantly wealthier than younger generations. They have lived through a time of unimaginable economic possibility, and availednof free education and healthcare, not to mention considerable job opportunities. Now the wealth is concentrated amongst the elderly, while younger more productive generations struggle.

I owe them nothing.

Maintaining the house, the boiler, paying for care,

So actually she could afford her tv license then.

Would you be happier if the over 75s did not own their homes?

Would you be happier if the over 75s did not own their homes?

I honestly don't care. However I'm just pointing out an incredibly common situation in which pensioners are cash poor whilst sitting in a house they own outright that is likely worth significantly more than they paid for it and are unwilling to sell or do equity release or whatever to make their life a bit better usually so they can preserve an inheritance for their children.

Not an inheritance, think most realise they need to fund their own care, and actually live

You are a long time retired

Why are people still blaming the Beeb for this?

This is a govt. policy the govt. says it still supports but declines to fund. Instead, it seeks to blackmail the BBC into subsidising govt spending on a social policy out of its agreed and ring-fenced source of funds.

Shame on the BBC for playing the govt's game. Not a penny for free or subsidised TV for anyone. If that's what the govt. wants, then pay for it out of taxation.

(Or better still, increase the pension generally and scrap all the free bus passes, winter fuel etc.)

Not an inheritance, think most realise they need to fund their own care, and actually live

So again, I'm sure your mum can fund her own tv license then since this is part of living.

You are a long time retired

The current pensioners are... I don't feel my.retirment will be quite so long somehow.

No

Why are people still blaming the Beeb for this?

Because they're the ones expecting the taxpayer to pay for them and don't want to move over to a proper commercial/business funding model.

If the Beeb want to hand out freebie licences to various people, then they need to include the cost of that in their business plan.

Personally, I think the licence should be scrapped completely and for the Beeb to either sell advertising or move to a subscription model. The world has moved on and the licence is now an antiquated historical anomaly.

I've now decided not to renew my licence. I watch so little live TV anyway, and this debacle has just made me think of options and alternatives, and I've decided I'm happy with amazon prime and netflix etc.

One thing to say about Netflix & the ilk is that their prices are likely to go up (or show ads) as they have to make a bigger/some profit at some point. They have similar business models to Uber/Amazon in that they start with huge growth & once they capture a share of the market have to increase prices in order to be profitable.

I don't understand people moaning about the licence fee, then happily paying £70 a month for sky.
It is also the government to blame for this, they have given backword ( can't think of the correct word) with regards to this.

This government has decided not to fund free tv licences.
So the BBC , which cannot afford to subsidise them because it cannot advertise, has had to make a decision of what to do.
It is the government who are responsible.responsible
The same would be true if the government decided that it would only pay for children to attend school for 4 hours a day.
The school would have to manage this.
Maybe some would fundraise, maybe others would only open between January until June and then close or whatever but it would not be the head teachers fault.