TV licence

The annual cost of a standard colour TV licence will rise to £174.50 from 1 April 2025 – an increase of £5 on the current price of £169.50 a year – the Government has announced.

The annual cost of a standard colour TV licence will rise to £169.50 from 1 April 2024 – an increase of £10.50 on the current price of £159 a year – the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced. It's the first increase to the fee since April 2021.

The TV licence fee will remain frozen for the next two years, the Government has announced. In a new settlement revealed today (17 January), households will be free from any increase to their £159 a year bill until 1 April 2024.

The cost of an annual standard colour TV licence will rise to £159 from 1 April 2021 – an increase of £1.50 on the current price of £157.50 a year.

The cost of an annual standard colour TV licence will rise to £157.50 from 1 April 2020 – an increase of £3.

ITV and the BBC have announced that their new 'BritBox' streaming service will be launched later this year, costing £5.99 a month. 

Free TV licences will only be available for over-75s who receive pension credit from next June, but 1.3 million eligible households don't claim this benefit. So we're calling on the BBC to launch an education campaign about it. Check NOW to see if you're eligible. 

A new wave of price hikes have hit, from council tax and prescriptions to energy and broadband - but there are still plenty of ways to cut these bills. 

Almost £38 million has been paid back in the past three years to people aged 75 and over who were continuing to pay for their TV licence even though they no longer needed to, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal. 

If you used the TV Licensing website between 29 August and 5 September you may need to check your bank statements for signs of suspicious activity, after the organisation admitted some transactions on the site were not as secure as they should have been.