£174 alert to anybody with a Fire Stick | Personal Finance | Finance | EUROtoday

UK households with an Amazon Fire Stick have been issued a £174 alert forward of a serious change subsequent 12 months.

The authorities has confirmed the TV Licence price will rise in keeping with inflation from April, including an additional £5, or 42p per 30 days, to payments. It follows a earlier £10.50 rise which introduced the cost to its present £169.50 in April this 12 months.

The cost, which will likely be £174.50 in complete, will apply to any family that watches or information stay TV on any channel or service, or makes use of BBC iPlayer. This applies to households watching or recording stay TV on a Fire Stick.

You are legally required to have a TV licence should you:

• watch or file TV on any channel by way of any TV service, corresponding to Sky, Virgin, Freeview, Freesat

• watch stay content material on streaming companies, corresponding to ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go

• use BBC iPlayer

TV Licences are per home, not per particular person, so should you stay in a home with a number of individuals you don’t all must have one in some circumstances.

If you’ve got separate tenancy agreements and also you watch TV in your individual room then you have to your individual TV Licence. But you may have one for the entire family should you watch TV in a single shared space, or have a joint tenancy settlement.

If you watch or file stay TV with no TV Licence you may be issued a effective of as much as £1,000.

Of course should you don’t wish to fork out £174.50 for a TV Licence, there are cases the place you don’t want one so it relies on your viewing preferences. You don’t want a TV Licence to observe:

• streaming companies, corresponding to Netflix and Disney Plus

• on-demand TV by way of companies like All 4 and Amazon Prime Video

• movies on web sites, corresponding to YouTube

• DVDs or Blurays

You may additionally be capable of get a free or discounted TV Licence should you’re aged 75 or over and get Pension Credit, or should you’re blind or in residential care.

The authorities has stated it should use a assessment of the BBC’s Royal Charter, which can embody a public session, to contemplate funding choices to help the BBC’s long-term future and will probably be increasing the Simple Payment Plan (SPP) to assist struggling households.

It says the growth will permit an estimated extra 9,000 unlicensed households experiencing monetary problem per 30 days to separate up the annual cost into extra manageable fortnightly and month-to-month instalments.