Four years after a television licence subsidy for pensioners was first proposed, St Helier Deputy Geoff Southern has asked that money initially put aside for improved health care for the elderly should instead go towards such a subsidy.The debate surrounding cheaper licences has been going on since 1999 when Senator Dick Shenton brought the idea to the States.
It was put forward again in 2000 by Senator Corrie Stein and that autumn the Finance and Economics Committee put forward a proposition for concessionary licences for the over-75s.But members of the Senior Citizens Association voted that the money should instead be put towards improving basic health care for the elderly and the Westfield health scheme was set up.
