People of state pension age have been urged to check if they can get a free TV licence which usually costs £169.50 a year.

Thousands of people are thought to be needlessly paying for their TV licence, when over-75s who claim Pension Credit can get it for free.

You need to be of state pension age, which is currently 66, to claim the benefit, which provides access to many freebies and discounts.

A DWP update on X, formerly Twitter, posted over the weekend, reads: “With #PensionCredit you could…