Pensioners feel pressured to pay the TV licence fee after receiving “nasty letters” from “scaremongering” officers, new claims suggest.
The annual fee to watch live TV is set to go up from £159 to £169.50 in April, with some over 75 and receiving Pension Credit eligible for a free licence.
An 84-year-old said she had received “nasty letters” from the Simple Payment Plan (SPP) who told her she needed to pay or that she would be visited by enforcement officers.
She said she never watched live TV so did not apply for one. But after beginning to watch GB News last summer, she was in “complete ignorance” that she would now need to pay for the licence.
The pensioner started receiving letters telling her she would need to pay, she said: “As soon as you pointed that out to me in an email, I arranged to have a TV licence but prior to that, I had two of these have these nasty letters arrive.”
