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Originally Posted by mb1547
I didn't read your second link (sorry) but you still made my point. The program isn't adequately monitored. The fee goes through the phone company vs. the feds, and the phone companies are responsible for verifying the information and monitoring the program. How is the phone company going to know if you died and your benefits ended? There must be some kind of good deal in it for the phone companies if they were so quick to hand out phones without verification--even to dead people who don't request them--and they wanted to administer the program themselves. It's good that the government is stepping in to demand stronger accountability. As far as the lack of response to verification though--that still doesn't surprise me, and I'm betting a chunk of it can be attributed to elderly customers getting something in the mail that they don't understand.
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Self certify ? Check a box saying you qualify and that's it..no verification ?
That's the rules the FCC put in place.
Why did it have to go on for 4 years and triple in cost before someone started asking questions ?
Don't get me wrong..I'm glad the FCC finally got on the ball on this.
But how do these idiotic program requirements get put in place to begin with ?
That's billions in wasted money we've lost over the years.
It took the MSM and Congress reacting to get the FCC to do something.
They seemed to be quite content just raising the USF each year to cover it.
You don't get mailed a free phone without signing up. The program does not work like that.
You have to sign up and self-certify.
41% are NOT elderly or dead. I'm sorry but I just don't buy that excuse you're giving.
The phone companies will not release their data so we don't know any information about those canceled plans.
You're making excuses for why the government failed. If any business operated like Fed programs do they'd be bankrupt within a year.
Stop making excuses and instead email your representative about these issues and call them out on it.
If the government is going to take on programs like this they need to do it right and from the start, not years and billions of lost dollars later.
Don't go blaming the phone companies for doing what the government told them to do.
The blame goes to the FCC 100%.
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