{"id":84700,"date":"2026-02-09T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84700"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:00:46","slug":"free-bus-pass-age-increases-in-england-from-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/09\/free-bus-pass-age-increases-in-england-from-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Free bus pass age increases in England from April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VYhJI.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Free bus pass qualification age will be raised for all pensioners from April\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport has confirmed that from April, residents in England will need to wait an additional year before receiving their free bus pass. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/free-bus-pass-age-increases-in-england-from-april-2026\/ar-AA1VYhJO?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6989f79412b644018403ff3ccc67e93f&amp;ei=85\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Department for Transport has confirmed that from April, residents in England will need to wait an additional year before receiving their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/60-oyster.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84701,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84700\/revisions\/84701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}