How To Keep Your Lifeline Benefit Every Year

4. One Benefit Per Household

Lifeline is limited to one benefit per household, either for a phone or for home internet, not both. A household is a group of people who live together and share income and expenses.

If someone else in your household signs up with another provider, the system may treat it as a duplicate and remove one of the benefits. Agree within your household who holds the Lifeline account, and choose the service that matters most to you.

People who share an address but not their finances, such as roommates, can each have their own benefit. They just need to confirm that they are separate households when they apply.