We feel it is a double outrage that those who have given their all to this country in taxes and raising children through their lives, have to pay a TV licence fee and are only exempt if they receive means-tested Pension Credit.
When Pensions Credit has poverty traps where claimants only have to be one penny over the means test threshold, and claimants get nothing. Meanwhile, BBC pundits and TV show host draw huge salaries that are funded by the poorest in people in our country. This is immoral. And part of an ever widening rich and poor divide in this country.
The government have taken away winter fuel payments. The BBC have been allowed to take away the free TV licence from the over 75's. The State pension is worth a miserly 27 of the national average wage. Something has to be done to help our 12 million pensioners. These people are our Grandparents.
