Petition Keep TV licences for the over 80's free.

The BBC survey concerning stopping those over 75 getting free licences showed only 52 percent of a sample of 192,000 in favour. If representative then half the population of the UK opposes the change.

Moving the age limit to 80 is a good solution.

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36 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 36 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 6 November 2019
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