LINK UP MISSOURI INSTALLATION DISCOUNT
FOR LOW-INCOME SUBSCRIBERS
For qualifying low-income households, financial assistance is available to help with the installation fees for new telephone services and discounts for your monthly local service fees.
The Link UP Missouri program is a Federal Lifeline assistance program designed to promote subscribership among low-income residential households. This program provides financial discounts for the installation charges of a new residential telephone line.
The initial installation fees of a (new) main residential service access line is discounted at a rate of 50 percent, or $30.00, whichever is less. This reduced charge is available only for a single residential telephone line per eligible household at the primary place of residence. However, the discounted charges do not include assistance with any required security deposit, contributions in aid of construction or customer advances. The premise at which the residence service is requested must be the applicant’s principal place of residence. There can only be one telephone line serving the residence premises.
To be eligible for Link Up Missouri assistance, the customer must participate in one of the following programs:
1) Medicaid
2) Food stamps
3) Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
4) Federal public housing assistance
5) Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
6) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF)
7) National School Lunch program (NSL)
8) Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance program
9) Tribal NSL
10) Tribal Head Start
11) Annual income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. This must be accompanied by supporting documentation.
For households in the Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company serving area, call 874-4111 for more information. If you live in one of the Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company’s exchanges and would like to apply for new telephone service, please call Denise at 874-5111 or come by our Business Office at 718 South West St., Green City, Missouri.
There are other links on our web site that will explain the monthly Federal and State Lifeline discounts available to low income households.
Federal linkup and lifeline application