With rising costs and the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program, households now have fewer options for affordable ...

Once the Lifeline program was updated to include wireless phone service in 2005, many eligible low-income Americans were able to receive discounts on their cell phone bill.

Lifeline Free: You’ll get 3,000 minutes, 4.5GB of high-speed data, and a free phone. Lifeline Free California: This plan offers unlimited talk, text, and 6GB of data. You’ll also get a free phone.

A day before the California Public Utilities Commission was to vote on a rule that would have shrunken subsidies low-income residents use for phone and internet services, officials pulled the item ...

That could change as the FCC is taking public comment on a plan to impose a cap. The Lifeline program has about 12.5 million subscribers, but only about one-third of eligible households is ...

Lifeline Plan enrollees account for 11% of DWSD's 225,000 overall residential household customers, Peckinpaugh said. Why customers must reenroll.