FREE CELL PHONE/Seniors & Low Income

[fadedrose]

FREE Tracphone - Go to this website:

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Enrollment/Safelink/en/Public/NewHome.html

There's a republican congressman trying to end this service, so hurry...

If you're on SS, SSI, Food Stamps, Assistance, etc., you may be eligible. You get about 250 minutes a month, but it's different in some cases. You must make at least one call a month. With this plan, you lose what you don't use, but get a new 250 minutes each month....

In some plans, whatever is left that month is added to the following month.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Warning.....zillion cookie request boxes swarm the page.

[No Vested Interest]

4. I noticed that and backed off. nt

[RebelOne]

2. SS is not eligible, only SSI and you must be on a public assistance program,

such as food stamps or Medicaid. SS is not an assistance program, it is an earned entitlement.

[fadedrose]

3. I know someone who just got their phone yesterday...

and they are on SS and NO other assistance program. He told me it depended on income. I saw the phone and it has a number already...

Maybe they'll ask him to return it eventually, but he has it now....

[RebelOne]

6. The income would have to be below the poverty level of a little over $11,000

for one person, and it goes up depending on how many people are in a family. I am not qualified because my SS is a little over $17,000. Check out this link.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm

[ellenrr]

5. it goes by income. If you are on SS, and yr income is low, you may be eligible, as I am.

[RebelOne]

7. My SS income is low, but it is over the poverty line, so I am not eligible. n/t

[CountAllVotes]

8. I'd been looking into this

I had come to no conclusions about it until I spoke with a very good friend of mine about it.

He advised me not to do it. He said, "It's a spy phone they are giving out to people on SSI, welfare, food stamps, etc.".

I had not thought of this until he mentioned it to me and yeah, it makes total sense!

I did not really *want* a cell phone anyway and now I have a good excuse for not needing one IMO!