I bet your aunt doesn’t have a purse full of them.
I know my state cross-checks for multiple applications with different vendors — not all states do that, I’m guessing. This state also checks for an existing lifelink landline phone. You can’t have both. In fact, the check turned up an old landline phone my relative had — from a prior apartment she had moved out from months ago.
Actually the cell is all she has now, she was required to get rid of her landline to qualify for the phone. Funny thing is she hated the phone they sent her (she is 80 and couldn’t figure out how to work it) so sent it back and her daughter put her on her cell phone plan for $10 a mnth.