E-Rate And Rural Health Care Programs' Inflation-Based Caps For Funding Year 2022

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau announces the E-Rate and Rural Health Care (RHC) programs’ funding caps for funding year 2022. The new caps represent a 4.2% inflation-adjusted increase in each program cap from funding year 2021. The E-Rate program funding cap for funding year 2022 is $4,456,460,992. The new cap represents a 4.2% inflation-adjusted increase in the $4,276,833,965 cap from funding year 2021. This is a $179,627,027 increase for the E-Rate program funding cap as a whole, including a $134,383,203 increase for the category one services funding level and a $45,243,823 increase for the category two services funding level. The RHC program funding cap for funding year 2022 is $637,721,108. This is a $25,704,690 increase for the RHC program funding cap. The internal cap for upfront payments and multi-year commitments in the Healthcare Connect Fund program is $161,022,761. These new funding caps represent a 4.2% inflation-adjusted increase to the $612,016,418 RHC program funding cap and the $154,532,400 internal cap for the Healthcare Connect Fund program’s multi-year commitments and upfront payments from funding year 2021.