Announcement: RTV License Fee Exemption [Wykaz uprawnionych]. When and what documents must be presented?

You must also submit the appropriate documents to Poczta Polska. To make things easier, Poczta Polska has prepared a list of people who are entitled to a signature exemption and a list of documents required to grant it.

Assistance allowance and special assistance allowance

In 2024, these two benefits will exempt you from paying the TV licence fee. Assistance Benefit or Special Assistance Allowance. You must provide the Post Office with documents proving your entitlement to them.

Important court ruling: Provincial Administrative Court: The RTV license fee is paid by a Pole abroad. The person who removed the murder weapon, i.e. your TV set, will also pay

As a general rule! You submit to Poczta Polska the decision of the competent authority carrying out tasks in the field of family benefits as a task entrusted to the government administration or the decision of an organizational unit of the Social Insurance Institution or another pension and pension authority.

Disability and TV fee exemption 2024.

People who have been judged as:

a) be included in group I of invalids or

b) total incapacity for work, in accordance with the Law of 17 December 1998 on pensions and disability benefits from the Social Security Fund
(Official Gazette 2022.504, 1504, 2461, i.e.) or

c) significant degree of disability, in accordance with the Law of 27 August 1997 on professional and social rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities (Official Gazette 2023.100, 173, 240, i.e.) or

d) Permanent or temporary total incapacity for work on the farm, in accordance with the Law of 20 December 1990 on social security
farmers (Official Gazette 2023.208, that is).

What is required? A decision of the competent contracting authority or a decision of a competent court annulling a previous decision of the contracting authority.

RTV licensing fee waiver in 2024 for people aged 60 and over

People over 60 years of age are exempt and are entitled to a pension whose monthly value does not exceed 50% of the average salary of the national economy in the previous year, announced by the President of the Central Statistics Service.

What is required? Identity card and decision of an organisational unit of the ZUS or another pension authority on the amount of the pension in a given year.

The pension and disability pension authorities, in addition to the ZUS, are:

• Agricultural Social Insurance Fund,
• Pension and Disability Insurance Institution of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration,
• military pension offices,
• Prison Service Pensions Office.

TV license fee waiver in 2024 for beneficiaries

Exemption for persons entitled to receive cash benefits under the Law of 12 March 2004 on social assistance (Official Gazette 2023.185, i.e.).

The cash benefits are:
− permanent benefit,
− periodic allowance,
− specific subsidy or specific specific subsidy,
− benefit or loan for economic independence,
− help for host families,
− assistance in becoming independent and continuing education,
− cash benefits for maintenance and coverage of expenses related to learning Polish for foreigners who have obtained refugee status or subsidiary protection in the Republic of Poland,
− remuneration due to the guardian for the provision of care by the court.

The organic units of social assistance are:
− regional social policy centers,
− district family support centers,
− social assistance centers,
− social welfare homes,
− specialist counselling facilities,
− care and teaching facilities,
− support centers
− crisis intervention centers

What is required? A decision by a social welfare organisation to grant a cash benefit.

List of Persons Exempt from RTV License Fee

The list is published in the table below [PDF do ściągnięcia]