Lifeline Assistance Program to continue providing services regardless of ACP’s future

Life Wireless, the Lifeline Assistance Program’s provider for Telrite Holdings, has vowed to continue accepting applications for their Lifeline Assistance Program after the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) runs out of funding in May. Life Wireless offers free service, data usage, and smartphones to low-income Americans. Subscribers are eligible for Lifeline Assistance Program help if they receive government assistance or if their income level is at or exceeds 135 percent below the federal poverty level. The program, created in 1985, has a mission of trying “to help ensure universal phone access to all Americans.” Upon approval to the program, eligible users can get “free unlimited talk and text with high-speed data” with a limit of one subscriber per household, according to a summary provided by Life Wireless. Despite efforts to renew funding for the ACP, including a push to approve The Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024, the Republican led House of Representatives has still failed to approve the measure.