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{{Short description|UK concessionary travel scheme}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox electronic payment |image= File:Freedom Pass.jpg |name= Freedom Pass |scheme= Concessionary fares travel pass |location= [[Greater London]] |service_1= [[London Underground]] |service_2= [[London Buses]] |service_3= [[National Rail]] |service_4= [[Docklands Light Railway|DLR]] |service_5= [[Tramlink]] |service_6= [[Elizabeth line]] |service_7= Local buses in England |variant_1= Older people |variant_2= Disabled |technology_1= [[MIFARE]] / [[Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation|ITSO]] |manager= [[London Councils]] |homepage= http://www.freedompass.org }} {{Disability sidebar}} '''Freedom Pass''' is a concessionary travel scheme, which began in 1973, to provide free travel to residents of [[Greater London]], England, for people with a disability or over the progressively increasing [[State Pension (United Kingdom)#State Pension age|state pension age]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Eligibility (Freedom Pass)|publisher=London Councils | date=31 March 2023 | url=https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/freedom-pass/older-persons-freedom-pass/eligibility}}</ref> (60 for women in 2010, increased to 66 for everybody until about 2026, then increasing further).<ref name=pensionage>{{cite web | title=State Pension Age Review published | website=GOV.UK | date=30 March 2023 | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/state-pension-age-review-published|access-date=12 May 2025}}</ref> The scheme is funded by local authorities and coordinated by [[London Councils]]. Originally the pass was a paper ticket, but since 2004 it has been encoded on to a [[RFID|contactless]] [[smartcard]] compatible with [[Oyster card]] readers, and since 2010 also [[Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation|ITSO]] card readers.<ref>{{cite report|last1=Norton |first1=Pam |last2=Latham |first2=Simon |title=CONCESSIONARY FARES: IMPLICATIONS OF THE 2007 CONCESSIONARY BUS TRAVEL ACT|section=2.2|url=https://moderngov.sutton.gov.uk/documents/s6671/Travel%20Act%20report.pdf |website=Sutton: Meetings, agendas, and minutes |publisher=[[London Borough of Sutton]]|date=15 January 2008}}</ref>
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