SBI Seeks Lifeline National Verifier Exceptions for Elderly in Tribal Areas
Lifeline service provider Smith Bagley Inc. asked the FCC to exempt elderly customers on tribal lands from having to provide paperwork proving their eligibility if they're 60 or older when recertification checks through the national verifier no longer show them…
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as eligible, in a filing posted Monday in docket 11-42. "If an elderly customer on Tribal lands can no longer be verified as a Medicaid participant," SBI said, "it is statistically likely that they also qualify via household income" or as a Social Security beneficiary. "Requiring documents in these cases would not only be unnecessary to prevent fraud, it would impose undue burdens on seniors." The company suggests elderly customers in tribal areas should be allowed to self-certify. Its counsel met with Wireline Deputy Bureau Chief Trent Harkrader and other staff Wednesday.