USAC Projects Rural Healthcare Program Will Carry Over $83 Million in Unused Funds
The FCC directed Universal Service Administrative Co. to carry forward the $83.22 million in unused funds from its 2018 USF Rural Health Care program funding year and redirect it for use in 2019, said a Wireline Bureau public notice on…
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docket 02-60 Monday. Last summer, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai asked for a 43 percent increase in the RHC program to account for inflation since its inception (see 1806060057). The 2019 funding cap for funding year 2019 is $594 million. The FCC released an NPRM last month on whether to set an overall budget cap for all USF programs, and to impose a joint cap for E-rate and RHC (see 1905310069).