Keeping Lifeline Subscribers Connected During COVID-19

To help Americans stay connected during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau:

1. temporarily waives, on its own motion, the Lifeline program’s usage requirements and general de-enrollment procedures, until May 29, 2020,
2. extends, on its own motion, our previous waiver of the Lifeline program’s recertification and reverification rules to May 29, 2020 to ensure that all of the waiver periods for Lifeline’s de-enrollment rules will have the same duration, and
3. directs the Universal Service Administrative Company to pause any involuntary de-enrollment of existing subscribers