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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
and the BBC promised to keep it free....they even said they would be 'ahead' in this deal.
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I think the people who did the maths on this ought to go back to school.... according to various websites funding free licences for everyone over 75 would cost £745m by 2021/22, even with the new scheme will cost the BBC around £250 million by 2021/22.
Basically, the government decided to stop paying for the free TV licences and gave the BBC responsibility to decide....