Comments Due March 7 on FCC Lifeline Privacy, April 8 on Separate PRA Items
Comments are due March 7 on an FCC matching program to verify Lifeline eligibility of low-income consumers under the 1974 Privacy Act, said Tuesday's Federal Register. The computer program to be established with four nonfederal agencies is to begin March…
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7 -- unless comments are received by that date requiring a contrary determination -- and conclude Aug. 5, 2020. The FCC mandated Universal Service Administrative Co. implement a national verifier of eligibility through proof of income or participation in qualifying programs such as Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, and housing, veterans, tribal and supplemental income programs. Paperwork Reduction Act comments are due at the FCC April 8 on telecom forbearance petition filing requirements (notice) and on certain access charge pool reporting duties associated with payphones (notice). The FCC later Tuesday set new soft and hard launches of the Lifeline national verifier in a dozen states and jurisdictions (see 1902050039). The agency's proposed Lifeline reseller ban is likely "dead" after court reversal of limits on enhanced tribal support, including a reseller ban, said an American Enterprise Institute scholar (see 1902050010).