FCC's Inspector General Finds fault with Low-Income, E-rate Programs
Submitted: December 12, 2008 - 5:17pm
Originally published: December 12, 2008
Last updated: December 12, 2008 - 5:17pm
Originally published: December 12, 2008
Last updated: December 12, 2008 - 5:17pm
The FCC's Inspector General released its "initial analysis" of audits of both the low income (Lifeline/LinkUp) and the E-Rate programs of the Universal Service Fund. The IG finds that ALL low income programs payments are "erroneous" and 13.8% of E-Rate payments are erroneous. These findings, then, label these programs as "at risk" according to OMB criteria.
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TelephonyOnline's Joan Engebretson wrote a critical article about an earlier IG audit analysis -- see What the FCC didn't tell us about the USF audit (http://benton.org/node/19638)