{"id":645041,"date":"2026-06-18T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:38:16","slug":"london-councils-urged-by-age-uk-to-protect-freedom-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645041\/","title":{"rendered":"London Councils urged by Age UK to protect Freedom Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tens of thousands of signatories have urged London Councils to publicly commit to keeping the Freedom Pass, a scheme that allows free public travel across London for people aged over 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An open letter calling for the protection of the pass, which has existed for 53 years, is to be handed to London Councils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body, which represents the capital&#8217;s 32 boroughs and the City of London, previously said it was concerned about the rising expense for councils of delivering the pass, and it was planning to carry out a review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John McGeachy, from Age UK London, said older people relied on the pass every day, and &#8220;the overwhelming response to our open letter shows just how vital this support is&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the Older Person&#8217;s Freedom Pass is paid for by the boroughs, Transport for London pays for another scheme called the 60+ London Oyster card that provides the same benefits for people over the age of 60 until they become eligible for the Freedom Pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of signatories have urged London Councils to publicly commit to keeping the Freedom Pass, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}