ACP ID Options 'Right Thing to Do': FCC Spokesperson
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act "directs the FCC to make sure that all households with women, infants, children, and breastfeeding mothers participating" in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program and "all households with students…
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participating [in] the free and reduced school lunch program are eligible for support from the Affordable Connectivity Program," emailed a spokesperson Monday. Last week, Commissioners Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington raised concerns about ACP enrollees not being required to include a Social Security number in their application to verify their identity (see 2201210082): "To be clear, these kinds of programs do not require social security numbers," the spokesperson said: The FCC "has made sure that every family participating in [ACP] provides identification like taxpayer identification numbers and driver's licenses. But this is about more than the law, it’s the right thing to do to make sure millions of people across the country are not left in digital darkness."