The Good Morning Britain presenter accused the taxpayer-funded corporation of making “D-Day veterans pay £154 for their TV licence”. Piers Morgan tweeted: “So we’re going to make D-Day veterans pay £154 for their TV licences? “What an absolute disgrace. Shame on you, BBC.” Around 3.7 million pensioners are believed to be affected by the change and many have attacked the “disgraceful decision”.
Pension Credit is a non-taxable weekly top up for pensioners based on a person’s income and the BBC estimate those eligible to apply could number 1.5 million by 2020.
Announcing the news, BBC Chairman Sir David Clementi said: “Copying the current scheme was ultimately untenable. It would have cost £745 million a year by 2021/22 - and risen to over one billion by the end of the next decade.
“£745 million a year is equivalent to around a fifth
