Letter from Commissioner AJit Pai to Chris Henderson, CEO of Universal Service Admininstrative Company

Thank you again for your May 25 letter, which contained detailed data on how wireless resellers have used the National Lifeline Accountability Database (NLAD). My staff has concluded further analysis of that data, and I am now concerned that abuse of the Universal Service Fund's Lifeline program is more widespread than I first thought...The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)'s data reveal that carriers enrolled 4,291,647 subscribers between October 2014 and April 2016 using the IEH override process. That's more than 35.3 percent of all subscribers enrolled in NLAD-participating states during that period...I ask that you respond with the requested information by June 28, 2016.