CJB wrote:
All Council Tax payers who are pensioners living in London or surrounds
are eligible for a Freedom Pass from age 60 (this may have been been raised to 62).

However who else is eligible?

I ask this because I saw a group of 5 guys of about age 30'ish, who could
only be described as East European and evidentially unemployed, sitting
on a wall in Trafalgar Square. Around their necks they each had a cord
and holder with a Freedom Pass inside.

So are younger people eligible for a Freedom Pass? Are the unemployed or
those on benefits also eligible? Are immigrants from the European Community eligible?

All these extra people must be putting a huge financial burden on the Councils &/or TfL.

I think there's a disabled version, as well as the better known oldie one.
I think you have to be a London resident, but not necessarily a British
national. The oldie version comes in two forms: at 60, you become eligible
for a London-only free Oyster card (which costs £10), with the standard
national bus pass plus 24-hours London Freedom pass becoming available at a
rising age of roughly 62.