The California Public Utilities Commission adequately oversees its LifeLine database,...
The California Public Utilities Commission adequately oversees its LifeLine database, it told the FCC in a Wednesday supplement to its petition to opt out of the National Lifeline Accountability Database (http://bit.ly/XPBVJr). The filing intended to show the FCC how the…
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state’s LifeLine administrator “1) receives and processes subscriber information provided by service providers to identify whether a subscriber is receiving or is in the process of receiving a California LifeLine benefit from another service provider; 2) handles descriptive addresses; 3) performs monthly scrubs to detect duplicative Lifeline support; and 4) administers the Lifeline household worksheet,” the CPUC said. It described its validation process and the ways it checks for duplicates. The CPUC “plans to verify a subscriber’s identity through a third-party identity verification service” soon, it added.