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Wireline Bureau Gives Some Healthcare Connect Fund Applicants Invoice Deadline Relief

FCC staff waived an invoice filing deadline for the Healthcare Connect Fund for parties associated with more than 100 funding request numbers (FRNs) the agency identified. "We allow the applicants and service providers associated with these FRNs to submit their…

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funding year 2017 invoicing forms to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) within six months from the issuance date of their funding commitment letters (FCLs)," said a Wireline Bureau order in docket 17-310. It said the parties weren't able to submit invoices on time due to processing delays. "These applicants submitted FCC Form 462 applications to USAC during the filing window period for funding year 2017 (i.e., March 1–June 30, 2017) and requested partial year funding commitments with services ending between July 2017 and March 2018. USAC only began to issue the associated FCLs on March 16, 2018, after reviewing an unprecedented number of applications."