Enrollment for FREE Government Supported Cell Phone Service
You can complete your Enrollment online or by phone (through Schedule a Call Back). Your completed application will be put into Pending status until your Documents are received.
Identity and Eligibility Proof Documents Processing
Once you complete your Enrollment you'll be required to send us Proof and ID Documents for verification. With six (6) different ways to submit copies, it couldn't be easier!
Carrier Service Enrollment and Pre-Activated Cell Phone Shipment
After we recieve and review your Documents we'll process your Enrollment into your chosen Carrier's system, arrange for the shipping of your new phone and update you via email.
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BIA FREE Government Supported Cell Phone Service
Since 1985, the Lifeline program has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that phone service brings, including being able to connect to jobs, family and emergency services.
Sign Up for FREE Government Supported Cell Phone Service!
Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance (aka BIA Assistance) Recipients Qualify for FREE Lifeline Service!
Under the mission area of Serving Communities, the Human Services Program supports the Department’s Strategic Goal to Advance Quality Communities for Tribes and Alaska Natives by improving welfare systems for Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives. Human Services consists of direct funding and activities related to social services, welfare assistance, Indian child welfare, and program oversight. The objective of this activity is to improve the quality of life for individual Indians that live on or near Indian reservations and to protect the children, elderly and disabled from abuse and neglect. The activity also provides child abuse and neglect services and protective services to Individual Indian Monies (IIM) supervised account holders who are minors, adults in need of assistance, adults under legal disability, and adults found to be non compos mentis.
The Social Services program supports Bureau Agency staff and over 900 tribal staff that have been hired by contracting tribes to run their programs. These staff provide counseling services to local on-reservation eligible Indians as well as coordinate all Human Services activities at the Tribe and Agency level. The social workers work with tribal courts, state courts, and Indian families for the placement and adoption of Indian children in Indian homes. The social workers serve as the contact point for numerous social service agencies that are responsible for child protection, placement, and adoption of Indian children.
This program also supports the Department’s Strategic Goal to Fulfill Indian Fiduciary Trust Responsibilities by providing for the management of IIM accounts for minors, adults in need of assistance, adults under legal disability, and adults found to be non compos mentis. The staff works with families and guardians in the development of distribution plans, and completes assessments and evaluations in support of these plans. The outcome of these actions results in accurate payments from trust accounts. Staff monitor the distribution plans to ensure that expenditure of funds are made in accordance with the plans and that appropriate supportive documents are maintained in the case files.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS GENERAL ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS QUALIFY FOR LIFELINE SERVICE
