How to reduce your TV licence bill to nothing and save £169

YOUR TV licence is simply a ineligible licence that allows you to ticker unrecorded tv and immoderate online streaming services successful the UK.

Anyone who wants to ticker unrecorded TV, including the BBC, ITV and Sky, indispensable wage for a TV licence.

The Government is liable for mounting the level of the licence fee.

Last December it was announced that the authorities would rise the licence interest by 6.7%, successful enactment with inflation, taking effect from April 2024.

This has brought the outgo of a colour licence interest to £169.50 per twelvemonth and a achromatic and achromatic licence interest to £57 per year.

It is simply a transgression offence to ticker unrecorded TV without a licence and enforcement officers tin transportation retired checks astatine your location if you bash not pay.

This tin pb to fines of up to £1,000 and if you dodge the interest you could look prosecution.

However, the emergence successful streaming services has meant it tin beryllium confusing for immoderate households to fig retired if they person to wage for a licence oregon not.

You indispensable person a TV licence to bash the following:

• Watch oregon grounds unrecorded TV connected immoderate transmission oregon service, specified arsenic Channel 4, ITV, BBC, SKY, Virgin oregon Freeview
• Use BBC iPlayer
• Watch unrecorded TV connected immoderate streaming work including Amazon Prime, ITV X, Channel 4 oregon YouTube.

You bash not request a TV Licence to watch:

• Streaming services similar Netflix and Disney Plus
• On-demand TV done services similar Amazon Prime Video
• Videos connected websites similar YouTube
• Videos oregon DVDs

However, if you are watching on-demand programmes connected websites specified arsenic Amazon Prime and past power implicit to a unrecorded programme the tract is streaming you indispensable person a licence to bash this.

It is worthy noting that TV licences are per location not per person, meaning the £169.50 interest tin beryllium divided betwixt a household of aggregate people.

However, this changes if you person abstracted tenancy agreements and you ticker TV successful your ain room.

For example, if you unrecorded successful a shared location and you ticker TV successful your chamber and your housemate does not, past you volition request your ain license.

You tin person 1 TV licence for the full household if you either ticker TV successful a azygous shared country oregon person a associated tenancy agreement.

So, if you are assured that you volition not beryllium watching immoderate unrecorded contented from your location you bash not person to wage a TV licence.

But it is worthy being alert of the imaginable fines and charges if you alteration your mind.

If you are already paying for a licence you tin cancel it and whitethorn besides beryllium eligible for a refund.

You tin bash this by visiting https://forms.tvlicensing.co.uk/.

Can you get a discount connected your TV licence?

You tin assertion a escaped TV licence if you’re 75 oregon older and either receive Pension Credit yourself oregon unrecorded with a spouse who gets Pension Credit.

You tin use for a free licence when you’re 74, but volition inactive person to wage until the extremity of the period earlier your 75^th birthday.

You tin use for your escaped licence online or by calling 0300 790 6071.

You could besides beryllium eligible for a discounted TV licence if you unrecorded successful residential attraction oregon sheltered accommodation, oregon if you’re registered blind.

If you unrecorded successful sheltered accommodation or residential attraction and are implicit 60 oregon disabled you tin get a licence for conscionable £7.50.

Your lodging manager should beryllium capable to cheque if you’re eligible and volition use for you.

If you’re registered blind, oregon unrecorded with idiosyncratic who is, you're successful enactment for a 50% discount.

The licence indispensable beryllium successful the sanction if the idiosyncratic registered blind, but if your existing licence is not successful their sanction you tin marque an exertion to transportation it.

You tin use for the discount on the TV Licensing website.