Peers issue fresh calls for Government to save free TV licences for over-75s
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mirror.co.ukPeers piled fresh pressure on the Government today to save over-75s' free TV licences. Millions of pensioners face being stripped of the benefit when curbs are due to come into force on August 1.
Restrictions were due on June 1 but were delayed by two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. A last-ditch fight to preserve the lifeline unfolded in the House of Lords where calls mounted for the Tories to protect free licences.
Labour's Lord Foulkes, who chairs Parliament's cross-party group on ageing and older people, wanted Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and incoming BBC director-general Tim Davie to hold talks and thrash out a plan to save the benefit.
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