Over-60s urged to cancel TV licence direct debit as £157.50 letter goes to over-75s today

mirror.co.uk:

Activists have urged over-60s to cancel their TV licence direct debits as a letter goes out to millions of older people who must now pay.

Campaign group Silver Voices has renewed calls for "direct action" which would see rebel pensioners only pay by time-consuming cheques and postal orders instead.

It is in solidarity with millions of people over 75, who begin receiving letters on how to pay their TV licence from today. People over 75 had been entitled to a free TV licence since 2000 - but the blanket exemption ended on August 1.

An estimated 3.7million elderly people will now have to shell out £157.50 a year to watch television and listen to BBC radio.