{"id":74262,"date":"2019-09-06T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lifeline-program-offers-assistance-with-voice-or-broadband-services\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:40:36","slug":"lifeline-program-offers-assistance-with-voice-or-broadband-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lifeline-program-offers-assistance-with-voice-or-broadband-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline program offers assistance with voice or broadband services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Access to local emergency services and community resources is vital to low-income and elderly residents. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission wants residents to \u201cstay connected\u201d and is reaching out to those who need voice and broadband service but can\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n<p>The Lifeline Program offers discounts to help residents access voice or broadband services. It helps low-income consumers connect to the nation\u2019s communications networks, find jobs, access health care services, connect with family and call for help in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Under the federal Lifeline program, customers who participate in certain public assistance and veterans\u2019 pension programs or qualify based on income, can receive a discount of at least $9.25 per month off their monthly bill for phone, broadband or bundled phone and broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifelinesupport.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lifelinesupport.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to local emergency services and community resources is vital to low-income and elderly residents. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission wants residents to \u201cstay connected\u201d and is reaching out to those who need voice and broadband service but can\u2019t afford it. The Lifeline Program offers discounts to help residents access voice or broadband services. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74262"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}