With today's economic climate, coming up with the money to pay for a smartphone and its monthly service can be an ...

The Lifeline assistance program began its life back in 1985 as a way to bring affordable phone service into more American homes. Today the program still can be applied to home phones but the birth of ...

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The Federal Communications Commission has announced plans to fine a mobile provider $51 million for defrauding its Lifeline program, which subsidizes wireless service for low-income Americans. The FCC ...

(CBS DETROIT) – For almost a year now, the city of Detroit has been helping those struggling to pay their water bill. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department's Lifeline Program offers customers a ...

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 ...

The nonprofit that operates the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline plans to soon launch a pilot program for LGBTQ individuals to call. The hope is that such a program could become a permanent ...