Switchover Help Scheme: Are you over 75 or have a disability?

Worried you simply won’t be able to afford it? And how about installing new TV kit? The Government has announced support for disabled and older people – for details see the Switchover Help Scheme website or telephone on 0800 40 85 900.

Here’s asummary of what has been promised:

• Help for all households with at least one person aged 75 or over.
• Help for all households with at least one person with a significant disability – who receives attendance allowance, disability living allowance or equivalent benefits under the war pension or industrial disablement benefit schemes.
• Help for all households where at least one person is registered blind or partially sighted.

The help will include providing and installing the necessary equipment to convert one TV set to digital, plus help with how to use it. Similar help will be given to people with satellite or cable.

Help will be free of charge for eligible households receiving pension credit, income support or jobseekers allowance. Other eligible households will pay a subsidised fee of £40.

The scheme will be funded by the BBC through the licence fee.

If eligible, you will be sent more information before your area goes digital.

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