Posted on 06/09/2016 7:02:22 PM PDT by blueyon
A letter sent by a Federal Communications Commission commissioner suggests that taxpayers are footing the bill for half a billion dollars in fraudulent "Obamaphone" subsidies.
Ajit Pai, the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC, says there may be as many as 4.2 million duplicate recipients of Lifeline Assistance subsidies, also known as the “Obamaphone” program.
In a letter to chief executive of Universal Services Administrative Company (USAC), Pai requests an audit of how carrier sub-contractors vet the applications for new subsidies. In the letter, first published by The Hill, Pai says that cell phone carriers may have bypassed a safeguard designed to prevent fraudulent claims.
The National Lifeline Assistance Database (NLAD) monitors recipients and allows the USAC to provide subsidies to one person in each qualifying household. But there is an exception for families that live as “Independent Economic Households” either in a homeless shelter or in a group home.
“Unfortunately, this well-natured exception to the override process appears to be undermining the one-per-household rule,” Pai said
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Why can’t they just turn off the phones?
Parasites have to protect their phony baloney jobs.
Because Obama.
That entire program is a silly waste and should be eliminated.
There is little vetting of phone program candidates.
I’ve walked right up to the Obamaphone sub-contractor poverty pimps at Costco and other Box stores and asked them what qualification proof you needed to say, get a phone for your elderly parent.
They were very dismissive of income and gov’t issued ID attestation evidence.
Just like urban vote registration and polling places.
It’s all a gimme dat version of the knockout game.
Whitey taxpayer bleed a lot.
Last I heard the record for one person was over 50 Obama phones. I think they stopped counting.
Anyone else remember when the program was started, it was just for land line phones?
That's going to leave a scar.
Obama done paid fo’ my phone!
This govt never keeps track of money it’s decided to piss away buying votes.
I was down in Fla. just a few months ago. A woman was standing on the steps going up to the County Gov’t building beside a little table asking people if they wanted a free cell phone paid for by the Gov’t. TANSTAAFL - There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Obama the Fraud President
Paid commission on selling government welfare. What do they expect?
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It should be mentioned that the first “Obamaphone” was handed out when George Bush was still President and Jeb Bush was invested in the company that made the phones, trac phone owned by a Mexican man named Carlos Slim who happened to be the richest man in the world from 2010-2013.
He’s the Champ!
Just another Obama scam. Damn, that boy is going to be filthy rich after he leaves office.
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