TracFone Meets Wireline Staff on Lifeline Eligibility
TracFone met FCC Wireline Bureau staff on how to supplement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards to show a Lifeline applicant is enrolled in SNAP. Other than participants in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada and Virginia, “the SNAP participant’s name and…
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account number is printed on the SNAP/Electronic Benefits Transfer card,” TracFone said Friday in docket 17-287. The company proposed “that in the states where the SNAP participant’s name and account number is printed on the SNAP card,” that card “accompanied by a receipt of a SNAP purchase within the last fourteen days would be proof of current enrollment in the SNAP program during the manual verification process for Lifeline eligibility.” Texas is also reviewing Lifeline issues (see 1903250043).