NTIA estimates 420,000 nursing-home residents will seek DTV coupo...
NTIA estimates 420,000 nursing-home residents will seek DTV coupons under a waiver the agency proposed in a rulemaking notice in Thursday’s Federal Register (CD April 25 p13). However, an NTIA filing the same day at the Office of Management…
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and Budget puts the number of nursing home applicants at 13 million. But 420,000 is the correct estimate, an NTIA spokesman said. “At first review, this is a typo,” he said of the filing at OMB. Both the rulemaking notice and the OMB filing estimate 340,000 households will apply for coupons if the program is opened up to consumers receiving mail at post office boxes.