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Posted on 02/26/2026 5:50:09 PM PST by Libloather
A federal lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday aimed at cracking down on alleged fraud within a federal program that paid for dead people’s phone and internet service.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is targeting the federal Lifeline program, which subsidizes the services for low-income Americans, after California was accused of taking in $3.8 million between 2020 and 2025 to cover the costs for 94,000 dead people.
“While Californians are taxed to the grave and back, its governor especially can’t pass the buck when the state is allowing providers to enroll dead people in a federal program,” Ernst told The Post.
A U.S. senator from Iowa introduced legislation Thursday aimed at cracking down on alleged fraud within the federal Lifeline program, accusing certain states, including California, of sidestepping federal safeguards meant to prevent abuse.
“While blue states are turning a blind eye to festering fraud, I’m working to stop it dead in its tracks,” Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, exclusively told The Post. “Lifeline – aka Obamaphone – is a grim reaper of a program that has funneled nearly $5 million worth of taxpayer funds to almost 117,000 deceased subscribers.”
The legislation, titled the “No Lifeline for Dead People Act,” would require all telecommunications carriers to use the federal government’s National Verifier system to confirm a recipient’s eligibility before enrolling them in the program. The bill would effectively eliminate the ability of states to rely on their own eligibility systems in place of the federal verification process.
The federal Lifeline program subsidizes phone and internet service for low-income households.
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“aimed at cracking down on alleged fraud within a federal program”
Yawn. How about closing the whole damn corrupt program down along with 100 other programs for starters.
Our criminal Congress adds over $6 billion of permanent debt on the $40 trillion national debt, EVERY DAY.
It “would require all telecommunications carriers to use the federal government’s National Verifier system to confirm a recipient’s eligibility before enrolling them in the program.”
Seems like it should have been done all along. SMH
Where there’s a buck to be had, there’s always a way.
Is this Obamaphone program the same as LifeLine?
Asking for a relative that lives in California.
“subsidizes phone and internet service for low-income households.”
Better yet, why the HELL are we paying such subsidies in the first place. Stop them entirely! If you are poor and can’t get a phone or internet, tough noogies. It’s not our problem.
Nibbling at the edges of massive fraud.
How about passing the SAVE act or is the pony show tomorrow? Can’t hate these scumbags enough.
These people are evil, but I have to (almost) admire their cunningness. How do they THINK of these work-arounds to enrich themselves? I never could come up with those kinds of schemes. (Maybe I have a low IQ? LOL!)
Need some oui-mo-jis for smiley faces and such.
Isn’t anyone interested in finding out with whom the dead are communicating?
Perhaps ZEEPERS and French Canadians?
Still voting, too.
Do you live in California?
Asking for a relative that lives in California.
> a federal program that paid for dead people’s phone and internet service <
Sometimes I’m amazed at how high the federal debt is.
And sometimes I’m amazed that it’s not even higher.
Everybody in Cleveland got 0bamaphone too. You food stamps, you social security, you low income, you dead, you got a phone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
I am a letter carrier in a small town. Drug dealers would use them for burner phones. Some people would get a new one every six months or so, get a free phone and sell it or trade it for $20 or $30 or trade for weed. I knew it was going to be a scam 5 seconds after the bill was past.
State collected the money for bogus accounts but is pretty sure that that monney was “disbursed” and did not go into the state treasury.
It's a tracking device and for monitoring their conversations. Many of these users live in the open air prison/reservation/insane asylums called Democrat cities.
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