CPUC Tees Up COVID-19 LifeLine Vote for May 28 Meeting
The California Public Utilities Commission may vote May 28 on a proposed decision to authorize staff to extend temporary suspension of state LifeLine renewal process “for so long as the renewal processes of other state public assistance programs remain suspended…
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due to the COVID-19 emergency.” Staff could temporarily suspend the non-usage rule as long as the FCC does the same for the federal program, it said. The CPUC could “reimburse providers for the federal subsidies that providers are unable to collect as a direct result of the Program’s suspension of the renewal process beyond the federal suspension period,” it said. The CPUC has been weighing COVID-19 responses via LifeLine and the California Advanced Services Fund (see 2004140013).