The Lifeline program, created more than 30 years ago to make telephone service more affordable for low-income families, has undergone its most radical change to date. Effective last Friday, Lifeline ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The phone cut out in the middle of a telemedicine visit with her brother’s doctor. Joyce Manz had called Spectrum’s customer service a few days earlier and told a representative that ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program originally only provided discounts on traditional landline phone service. Once the Lifeline program was updated to include wireless phone service in 2005, many ...

The benefits of the Federal Lifeline Assistance Program are available to people in every state, and to those who meet the program's requirements. Those who are eligible can apply through an approved ...

On March 29, 2017, FCC Chairman Pai announced plans to initiate a proceeding at the FCC to eliminate the Lifeline Broadband Provider (“LBP”) designation process administered by its Wireline ...

Students from low-income families could qualify for affordable broadband services through the newly expanded Lifeline program that the Federal Communications Commission approved this month. The ...

Amid delays and partisan recriminations, the Federal Communications Commission approved today through a 3-2 vote a proposal to expand the federal Lifeline program to include subsidies for broadband ...

There could be late changes to the Federal Communications Commission’s planned overhaul of its phone subsidy program for low-income Americans, one FCC commissioner hinted Tuesday. Mignon Clyburn, a ...

Scholars and policymakers alike have long criticized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its failure to analyze the efficacy of the Lifeline program. Lifeline spends $2.25 billion annually ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today defended a new decision that prevents nine ISPs from using a federal program to sell subsidized broadband to poor people. In a blog post ...

Federal Medicaid officials say they will extend some flexibilities for home and community-based services that emerged during the pandemic in a bid to help the beleaguered disability services sector ...

The Federal Communications Commission is dropping its legal defense of a new system for expanding broadband subsidies for poor people, and it will not approve applications from companies that want to ...