Millions of people can reduce their TV Licence to £0 from £169 if they act now

The script for watching TV is antithetic present arsenic radical look outgo of surviving increases and powerfulness measure hikes. There are besides galore connected request services specified arsenic Netflix wherever a licence is not needed

The TV scenery has changed hugely with the advent of watching connected request and streaming TV services.

People person present has shifted distant from watching a scheduled programme to choosing erstwhile you privation to ticker something.

The TV Licence, present £169.50 per year, oregon astir £14 a period connected Direct Debit. But the script is antithetic present arsenic radical look outgo of surviving increases and powerfulness measure hikes.

This means you should cheque whether you really request a TV Licence oregon not. The Express reports determination is communal misconception that TV Licences are lone needed to ticker BBC content.

Some radical accidental 'oh good I don't ticker thing connected the BBC truthful I don't request to pay'. This is simply a myth, and rules connected streaming platforms were changed immoderate years ago. But determination are tons of ways you tin ticker TV without a TV Licence.

A TV Licence is simply a ineligible request if you bash immoderate of these:

• Watch oregon grounds TV connected immoderate transmission via immoderate TV work (such arsenic Sky, Virgin, Freeview, Freesat)
• Watch unrecorded contented connected streaming services (e.g. ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go)
• Use BBC iPlayer astatine all

TV licences are per location not person. This means if you unrecorded successful a location with aggregate people, you don't each request a TV Licence *unless* your rooms are counted arsenic abstracted addresses.

When you determine that you don't request a TV licence, you person to state to TV Licensing that you are exempt. But yiu volition person to explicate which services you ticker which volition let entitle you to a waiver.

'TV Licence detection vans' are thought to beryllium a story by many, but the TV Licensing website claims: "We person a fleet of detector vans that tin observe the usage of TV receiving instrumentality astatine specifically targeted addresses wrong minutes."

It adds: "We person a database of astir 31 cardinal licensed and unlicensed addresses. This tells america if your code has a TV Licence."

"All our visiting officers person entree to this database. This means they tin cheque if you person a licence oregon not."

"If you archer america that you bash not request a TV Licence, our officers whitethorn inactive sojourn you to corroborate this."

To get escaped of your licence, if you decidedly won't ticker unrecorded TV, spell to the TV Licence website wherever you volition request to marque a declaration that you either don't ain a TV oregon don't usage it for immoderate circumstances successful which a TV Licence is required.

State pensioners tin besides use for a escaped TV Licence if they are aged implicit 74 and person Pension Credit, besides reducing your measure to £0.