Thousands could save up to £170 by getting a free or discounted TV licence

Tens of thousands of pensioners and radical surviving with disabilities could beryllium missing retired connected a escaped oregon heavily-discounted TV licence.

There are 4 main groups of radical who tin person the £169.50 licence interest waived wholly oregon get betwixt £84.75 and £162.50 off.

Firstly, radical who are 75 oregon older and either get pension credit, oregon unrecorded with a spouse who does, gets a escaped TV licence.

Nobody other surviving astatine the aforesaid code needs to wage adjacent if they don’t autumn into the aforesaid categories.

Secondly, radical who are retired and implicit 60, oregon disabled, tin get a TV licence for conscionable £7.50 if they unrecorded successful definite types of accommodation.

These see eligible attraction homes, supported lodging oregon sheltered accommodation.

Anyone who thinks their code mightiness suffice should cheque with their lodging manager, according to Gov.uk.

Thirdly, radical who are registered blind, oregon unrecorded with idiosyncratic who is, tin get a 50% discount (worth £84.75).

Finally, students tin besides beryllium exempt from paying for a TV licence arsenic agelong arsenic the pursuing 3 conditions are met:

1. Their ‘out-of-term address’ (for example, their parents’ oregon guardians’ address) is covered by a TV licence.
2. They lone usage TV-receiving instrumentality (like a smartphone, tablet oregon laptop) that is powered solely by its ain interior batteries.
3. They’re not watching TV connected that instrumentality portion it’s connected it to an aerial oregon plugged into the mains.

This means students whose parents oregon guardians person a TV licence are good to usage BBC iPlayer and/or ticker unrecorded tv connected a smartphone, tablet oregon laptop that’s not charging astatine the time, without having to wage for their ain licence – arsenic agelong arsenic your parents’ code is wherever you unrecorded extracurricular of word time.

The licence – which increased successful terms successful April – indispensable beryllium registered successful the sanction of the idiosyncratic who is registered blind.

The TV licence is legally required if you ticker unrecorded tv – connected immoderate transmission – oregon usage the BBC iPlayer.

You’ll besides request it if you grounds unrecorded tv astatine the clip it’s broadcast, for illustration utilizing Sky Q, Virgin TV 360, oregon an old-fashioned video recorder.

Watching unrecorded sports oregon paying other for unrecorded add-ons to services, specified as Amazon Prime’s Video Content, volition besides necessitate a licence.

You don’t request a licence to usage immoderate of the different catch-up services, specified as ITVX, Channel 4 or My5, oregon to usage streaming sites.

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