Lifeline#
The Lifeline program subsidizes phone and broadband plans for low-income households. On behalf of the Federal Communications Commission, Lifeline is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, a nonprofit, through the Universal Service Fund.
Eligibility#
The FCC provides at most one Lifeline benefit to households with income below 135% of the federal poverty guideline, as well as to households with members that participate in Medicaid, SSI, and SNAP (PolicyEngine supports these three), as well as other programs.
Benefit#
Lifeline provides up to $9.25 per month.
Variable#
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from policyengine_us.tools.documentation import (
variable_summary,
variation_chart,
)
variable_summary("lifeline")
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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 from policyengine_us.tools.documentation import (
2 variable_summary,
3 variation_chart,
4 )
6 variable_summary("lifeline")
File ~/work/policyengine-us/policyengine-us/policyengine_us/tools/documentation.py:9
6 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
8 from policyengine_core.enums import Enum
----> 9 from policyengine_core.charts import (
10 LIGHTER_BLUE,
11 LIGHT_BLUE,
12 BLUE,
13 DARK_BLUE,
14 format_fig,
15 display_fig,
16 )
17 from policyengine_us.system import system
18 from policyengine_us import Simulation
ImportError: cannot import name 'LIGHTER_BLUE' from 'policyengine_core.charts' (/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.19/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/policyengine_core/charts/__init__.py)
Values by income#
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variation_chart(
"lifeline",
additional_data=dict(
spm_units=dict(
spm_unit=dict(
broadband_cost=40 * 12,
)
)
),
)