With today's economic climate, coming up with the money to pay for a smartphone and its monthly service can be an ...

With no phone and no money to pay for one, Romonica Grayson often has to use the early 20th century method of getting ahold of someone: She hikes over to that someone's house and knocks on the door.

Lifeline is a government benefit program that provides discounts on monthly telephone or broadband service for eligible low-income consumers to help ensure they have the opportunities and security ...

The Federal Lifeline Assistance Program originally only provided discounts on traditional landline phone service. Once the Lifeline program was updated to include wireless phone service in 2005, many ...

SACRAMENTO — A key state Senate committee is backing phone giant AT&T; Inc. in a clash with regulators over how to update the state’s LifeLine program that provides cut-rate phone service for 1.2 ...

MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Michigan Public Service Commission and Governor Gretchen Whitmer are teaming up to highlight the Lifeline telephone and broadband discount program. This comes as part of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Special LifeLine rates for low-income telephone customers that had been ...

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) announced eligibility for the Lifeline telephone discount program has been expanded to include participants in the Veterans and Survivors Pension Benefits ...

CHICOPEE — Jennifer Thurston's family spends up to $50 a week on phone calls to stay in touch with her while she is in custody. It's a lot for a family struggling with poverty and poor health. "My ...

"It is perverse to rack up [phone] charges for a vulnerable population," said Brian Highsmith, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center in Boston. "It's their only lifeline to the outside ...