Digital Switchover Help Scheme
The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV if you are disabled or over 75.
The traditional TV signal in Anglia is being switched off in 2011. The Switchover help scheme was set up by the Government and is run by the BBC. Its purpose is to make access to digital TV easy for older and disabled people.
The Help Scheme will convert an eligible person’s television to digital in the run up to the digital switchover in Anglia and provides a year’s free aftercare.
The Switchover Help Scheme aims to reach out to all eligible people, to ensure that those who need help get it, so that no-one eligible need be left behind without access to television after the switchover.
People are eligible to receive help from the Help Scheme if they are:
The Help Scheme will convert an eligible person’s television to digital in the run up to the digital switchover in Anglia and provides a year’s free aftercare.
The Switchover Help Scheme aims to reach out to all eligible people, to ensure that those who need help get it, so that no-one eligible need be left behind without access to television after the switchover.
People are eligible to receive help from the Help Scheme if they are:
- aged 75 or over or
- have lived (or are likely to live) in a care home for more than six months or
- get (or could get) Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Attendance Allowance, Constant Attendance Allowance or mobility supplement or
- registered blind or partially sighte
For more information see: Digital Switchover Help Scheme
28 April 2010
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