Results in your survey were interesting,but as apparently less than 450 pensioners took part, totally unrepresentative of the pensioner population.
What we receive in bus passes and free TV licences has been paid for in taxation over many years.
If ,as suggested, pensioner benefits should be means-tested, then logically, all benefits, whatever they are, must be means-tested too.
If all benefits were more closely monitored, then fine, monitor the pensioner benefits too. A lot of us would probably forego perhaps the heating allowance as not really necessary, but then, so too should a lot of people who claim benefits they don't really need, but respond 'it's my right' to claim.
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According to the Scottish Government abolishing charges for all prescriptions has been virtually cost neutral because of the savings made on administration, collection & monitoring of charges, etc. The added bonus is that people most in need are now collecting all of their prescribed medication, instead of having to ration what they could afford each month, which in turn improves general health. It has also speeded up a visit to the pharmacy 
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Think of the savings that could be made if Heating Allowance were abolished and replaced by an across the board increase of £2 a week on basic pension. The cost of a whole department, forms and postage would be saved. As someone else has said the bus passes are really a subsidy to otherwise underused bus services and I cannot imagine that many people in the higher income brackets even bother to obtain them. It makes economic sense to just give ALL pensioners a decent basic pension and then claw back from the better off via the tax system.
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