CPUC Delays Low-Income Eligibility Criteria Changes
California will delay implementing revised LifeLine eligibility criteria until Nov. 1 -- or longer, if the FCC grants the state a later implementation date, the California Public Utilities Commission decided Thursday. Commissioners voted unanimously for the order in docket 11-03-013…
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as part of the consent agenda at their meeting. It responds to concerns that 81,000 LifeLine subscribers may soon become ineligible (see 1707120014). The decision will “prevent these potential disruptive changes from going into effect right away,” Commissioner Cliff Rechtschaffen said at the livestreamed meeting.