E-Rate and Rural Health Care Programs' Inflation-Based Caps for Funding Year 2020

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau announces the E-Rate and Rural Health Care (RHC) programs’ funding caps for funding year 2020. The new caps represent a 1.8% inflation-adjusted increase in each program cap from funding year 2019. The E-Rate program funding cap for funding year 2020 is $4,226,120,519. The new cap represents a 1.8% inflation-adjusted increase in the $4,151,395,402 cap from funding year 2019. The RHC Program funding cap for funding year 2020 is $604,759,306. The cap for upfront payments and multi-year commitments under the Healthcare Connect Fund Program is $152,700,000. These new caps represent a 1.8% inflation-adjusted increase in the $594,066,116 RHC Program funding cap and the cap on multi-year commitments and upfront payments from funding year 2019.