TV Licensing and Independent Age are providing people celebrating their seventy fifth birthday with free TV Licenses.
There are approximately 465,000 people who will be seventy five years old this current year and TV Licensing and Independent Age will be gifting all such people free TV Licenses on their seventy fifth birthdays.
Any person who is seventy five years or older is entitled to receive a free TV License for their main address. As ,mentioned earlier there are at present there are presently more than four hundred thousand people who are therefore eligible for this free offer. There are more that 4.9 million people who are more than seventy five years of age in the United Kingdom and TV licensing is urging anyone who are in a position to avail of the free offer to put in an application either via the Internet or the telephone.
All devices in the premises will be covered in this free license and this would imply that family or care takers who live in the same house would also be able to take advantage of this offer.
People who are seventy four years or more can start to plan for the free offer by submitting an application for a temporary license that would be for duration of one to eleven months.
The representative of TV Licensing, Nicole Fuller stated that the procedure for the application was easy and any extra assistance would be offered to any person who may require help to apply.
She went on to say that submitting an application for a free license was easy and once a person had the license, the company would send them a new license every three years, thereby helping to reduce paper work.
This offer for a free TV license does not happen by default, so anyone who may be interested in availing of it would have to ensure that they do not forget to put in an application by contacting TV Licensing directly.
Those who qualify for this offer can sign up via the Internet at www.tvlicensing.co.uk/over75 or call 0300 790 6073.