TV licence Should the BBC pay for pensioners BBC Newsnight

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Free TV licences for up to 3.7m pensioners are being scrapped, the BBC has announced. • Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F • Under the new rules, only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence. • In 2015, the UK government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement. • But that would have cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's budget, by 2021/22. This, the BBC said, would have meant the closure of several channels and stations - a move they did not believe could be justified for the rest of the licence fee payers. • So has the BBC bottled it? Or should it never have agreed to become a cultural arm of the welfare state? • Ben Chu reports and Emily Maitlis is joined by the BBC's chairman David Clementi. • Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. • Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight • Twitter: / bbcnewsnight • Facebook: / bbcnewsnight

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