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Free TV licences for up to 3.7m pensioners are being scrapped, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has announced.
Under the new rules, only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence.
In 2015, the government announced the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.
But that would have cost £745m, a fifth of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s budget, by 2021/22. This, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ said, would have meant the closure of several channels and stations - a move they did not believe could be justified for the rest of the licence fee payers.
So has the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ bottled it? Or should it never have agreed to become a cultural arm of the welfare state?

Ben Chu reports and Emily Maitlis is joined by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s chairman David Clementi.