January 2019 Lifeline National Verifier Plan Update

On June 18, 2018, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) and the Federal Communications Commission deployed the National Verifier (NV) system, kicking off the initial Soft Launch phase in six states. Since then, USAC has launched in ten additional states/territories across two separate launches. States and territories in the June 2018 and October 2018 launches are in the Full Launch phase, meaning carriers are required to use the NV system. In addition, consumers have access to use the system in these states. Since the December 2018 launch is still in its Soft Launch phase, NV system use is optional for carriers in those states and consumers do not have access yet. USAC and the FCC will provide advanced notice of the full launches to all carriers and state agencies in each scheduled launch.