Texas Lifeline participants deemed eligible through another household...
Texas Lifeline participants deemed eligible through another household member are being contacted to get their Social Security number and date of birth, said the state’s Public Utility Commission in an FCC ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1kORc9b). The PUC and its contractor,…
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Solix, discovered the data were not being completed during a review of the state’s Lifeline process, PUC Lifeline Program Administrator Jay Stone told an FCC official Feb. 21. The program will begin asking self-enrolled Lifeline participants to renew their enrollment status every seven months, he said, according to the filing posted Friday in docket 11-42. It said certification forms are now only filled out when self-enrollees are initially approved for Lifeline.