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  • Federal HDTV aid bypasses nursing homes (New coupon program)

    01/14/2008 10:53:29 PM PST · by canuck_conservative · 8 replies · 553+ views
    News & Observer ^ | Jan. 10, 2007 | Thomas Goldsmith
    Millions of older and disabled Americans in nursing and adult-care homes are excluded from a government program that helps people convert their TV sets to receive a new digital signal next year. The reason? A federal program that pays for digital converter boxes for older televisions -- necessary when all TV broadcasting goes digital early next year -- specifically requires recipients to live in a "household" as recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. Adult-care and nursing homes are considered "group quarters" instead of households by the census bureau, a spokesman for the bureau said. That means those residents might lose...