Submitted by Michael Thompson on Thursday 31st October 2024
Published on Tuesday 26th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 26th May 2025
Current Signatures: 50
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Tagged with
Bills ~ Children ~ Cost ~ country ~ Desperate ~ Draw ~ fund ~ Government ~ licence fee ~ Media ~ Outrage ~ Outrageously ~ Pension Credit ~ Pensions ~ Raise ~ Soaring ~ Tax ~ testing ~ TV ~ TV Licence ~ TV licence fee ~ utility bills
Fund free TV licences for all pensioners
We want the Government to fund free TV licences for existing pensioners and those who reach the official retirement age. When people reach retirement age, we think they should receive a state-financed free TV licence.
Many pensioners live on the breadline with only the TV for company. With the cost of food soaring and utility bills ever higher, we feel there is a desperate need to provide all pensioners with at least this concession.
We feel it is a double outrage that those who have given their all to this country in taxes and raising children have to pay a TV licence fee and are only exempt if they receive means-tested Pension Credit. Meanwhile, some media figures draw huge salaries.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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