OVER-75s ‘MISSING OUT ON FREE TV LICENCES’: Jess Sheldon (Express 19/8) said that according to a survey compiled by the charity Turn2Us, 39 per cent of over-75s pensioner households on state Pension Credit who were entitled to free licences – amounting to almost 600,000 individuals – were not claiming them. Ms Sheldon explained that from August 1, as a result of changes imposed by the BBC, most over-75s now had to pay for their television licences, but those entitled Pension Credit remained exempt from the fee. She added that the largest number of those not claiming their entitlement were in the North-west of England.