Being poor or homeless should not keep someone from having a cellphone, especially if they need emergency help during the winter months. That’s the idea behind Shelly Tharp’s efforts to distribute ...

In trying to find ways to stretch your dollars further every month, you must find financial relief and take advantage of breaks where you can. The FCC introduced its Affordable Connectivity Program ...

AT&T Ohio is asking for permission to drop out of a program that helps poor consumers living in most of its service territory afford telephone service. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is ...

A citizen group is demanding the end of a government cell phone program that was the subject of a recent Oklahoma Impact Team investigation. "Citizens Against Government Waste" is asking people to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services released an update to the federal poverty guidelines (“FPG”) for 2015 for the 48 states and DC, Alaska, and Hawaii. In order to qualify for the Lifeline ...