FCC Provides Guidance on Rolling Recertification Pursuant to the Lifeline Modernization Order

In this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) provides guidance regarding the implementation of the rolling recertification process, as established by the 2016 Lifeline Modernization Order. The Commission adopted rules to change the subscriber eligibility recertification process from once each calendar-year to a rolling process based on each subscriber’s service initiation date. Currently, Lifeline subscribers must recertify their eligibility once every calendar year. The Order adopted a rolling recertification process that requires subscriber eligibility to be recertified every 12 months following the subscriber’s service initiation date. The Commission established this rolling recertification requirement to improve administrative efficiency and reduce burdens on carriers, USAC and, in the future, the National Verifier.