Boomerang Challenges USAC Lifeline Ruling Limiting Enrollments at Single Address
Boomerang Wireless asked the FCC to overrule a Universal Service Administrative Co. decision that it violated the Lifeline program’s supposed one-benefit-per-household rule by enrolling too many applicants at a single address. The FCC’s Lifeline rules “do not set household limits…
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at an address so long as the prescribed process of obtaining a signed Independent Economic Household (IEH) worksheet is followed,” Boomerang said in a filing posted Monday in docket 11-42. USAC “appears to have created and applied a limit on the number of eligible Lifeline households that may reside at a particular address,” the company said. But the commission “has never set a cap on the number of Lifeline households that may reside at a particular address and even specifically rejected a one benefit per address rule in the 2012 Lifeline Reform Order.”