Candy crush free friend lives from facebook

in candy crush you get free lives from Facebook friends and you can use them when your 5 lives are done. It used to be a 1:1 ratio, one free life one free game. Now it has been requiring 3 free friend-lives to play one game. Is this new? Is it an error?

Thanks for trying to help me but a screen shot won’t solve the problem because it’s in the process of using my lives to play a game with when I feel the error is occurring. Yes, I know my envelope has both requests for lives and gift lives from friends. I am only using the given of lives not the requests. When I hit the button for a free life the number of requests in my envelope decreases by 1 but I don’t get a free life at all unless I use 3 gift lives , my envelope requests drops down by 3 (e.g. 50 -3=47) but the game only gives me 1 free life hence a 3:1 ratio rather than a 1:1 ratio. Does this make sense now? It has been doing this for 2 weeks. I’ve basically have stopped using my lives given to me from my friends because of this.