The BBC, dumped on by the Conservative government to implement a government policy, sounds pretty pleased with the public reponse to the ending of most free licence fees for the over-75s.
It calculates that 9 out of 10 households where an over-75 needed a free or paid licence have sorted themselves out. 3.9m needed to act; 2.8m now pay for their own licence; 709,000 have got a free licence, because they are on Pension Credit, with another 74,000 being processed. 41,000 have decided they don't need a licence.
A light warning to the remainder: "The extended transition period we put in place due to Covid-19 will end on 31 July 2021. And in line with general policy, anyone who watches or records live TV programmes on any channel, or downloads or watches BBC programmes on BBC iPlayer, must be covered by a valid TV licence. "
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