Pai Asks USAC Chief New Questions Targeting Lifeline Waste, Fraud and Abuse
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai sent a further Lifeline USF query to Universal Service Administrative Co. CEO Chris Henderson Monday. Pai said he appreciated Henderson's answers to previous queries (see 1606080062) about the waste, fraud and abuse that has "riddled" Lifeline…
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since wireless resellers entered the low-income subsidy program. He asked the USAC administrator to answer a series of new questions by Aug. 15. "If American taxpayers are to have faith in the Universal Service Fund, they must know that the Lifeline program only supports actual, eligible subscribers, not phantoms," Pai said in a letter posted on the FCC website.