Encouraging and facilitating state collaboration will accelerate the benefits of...
Encouraging and facilitating state collaboration will accelerate the benefits of the FCC’s Lifeline Reform Order, said the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in a filing at the FCC (http://goo.gl/sN9qf). While a federal database may be desirable and may be as robust…
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as any state system, most qualifying low-income programs are administered at the state level, the state commission said. A federal database may preclude states from including other income-based state programs in the eligibility requirements, or make it more difficult for providers to verify eligibility, it said. States are in a better position to use these databases to administer the program, monitor eligibility and eligible telecommunications carrier compliance, as well as prevent waste, fraud and abuse, it said. Meanwhile, Lifeline privacy issues on a state or federal level should be directly addressed with the hosts of the data, it said. Those are the entities that are responsible for meeting state and federal privacy laws, it said.